Myrhlica. dioecia monadelphia. 843 



filatuents. Female. Cabjx as in the male. Coro/ none. 

 Germ superior, one-celletl, one-seeded ; a</ac7/7nP7<< inferior. 

 Drupe superior, fleshy, two-valved, nut one-seeded, covered 

 with a rnultifid aril, commonly called mace. Einbrijo inferi- 

 or, and furnished with an ample ruminated perisperm. 

 M. moschata. Willd. iv. 8()9. 



Leaves oblong-. J\I ale flowers several on simple and com- 

 pound axillary racemes. Female Jiowers solitary. Calyxes 

 pitcher-shaped. 



M. officinalis. Lmn. Syst. 493. Snppl. 2C5. G(crt. i. <. 41. 

 M. Moschata. Woodville's Medical Botany, 3G3. t. 134. 

 Nux myristica. Rumph. Anih. ii. 14. t. 4. 

 Jay-phah<, the Sanscrit name of the nutmeg^ and Jati the 

 mace. 



Jaga-phul, the Bengalee name of the nutmeg, and Jatri the 

 mace. 



Jouz-bewa of the Persians. 



A native of the Moluccas, and other Islands in their vicini- 

 ty, bearing male and jfemale on different trees; and there 

 blossoming and bearing fruit the whole year. In some in- 

 stances I have observed them to be monoicous. 



Trunk straight up to the top of the tree, as in the pines. 

 Bark smooth, and of a greenish ash, or dirty olive colour. 

 Branches in regular equi-distant verticels, nearly horizontal, 

 with their extremities often drooping. Leaves alternate, 

 sub-bifarious, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth on both 

 sides, but paler underneath, when bruised faintly aromatic; 

 from three to six inches long, and from one to two and a half 

 broad. Male. Racemes axillary, often two-cleft near the 

 apex, with the divisions spreading. Flowers numerous on as- 

 cending, clavate pedicels, nearly as long as the peduncles, 

 small, inodorous, and yellow. Bracles of the pedicels solitary, 

 minute, one-flowered, caducous, those of the four lower ones 

 also solitary, but larger, fleshy, more permanent, and embrac- 

 ing two thirds of the base of the calyx. Calyx pitcher-shaped, 

 mouth three-toothed. Corol none. Filament single, resting 



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