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MyristicAcE& or Nurmec Famity.—A group of apetalous 
trees comprising the genus Myristica, of about 80 species. 
Myristica.—A large tropical genus of fragrant, apetalous 
trees—the nutmegs—coextensive with the nutmeg family, having. 
aggregate fruit. (After Strasburger, Noll, Schenck and Schimper.) 
alternate, entire, often pellucid punctate leaves, small dicecious, 
regular flowers, and a succulent, two-valved, one-celled fruit 
with a solitary seed containing ruminate albumen and covered 
by a fleshy arillode. 
