154 SPICES 



CHAP. Ill 



Myristica argentea, the long nutmeg of New Guinea, 

 is often imported into Singapore from the Eastern 

 islands for making oil or soap, and occasionally gets 

 mixed with the genuine nutmegs as an adulterant. It 

 can be distinguished by its long and rather cylindric form. 

 It is only faintly aromatic, and valueless as a spice. 



There are upwards of fifty kinds of wild nutmeg in 

 the Malay Peninsula and adjacent islands, and of these 

 hardly any have any aroma either in the seed or mace. 

 The only one which is at all aromatic in the Malay 

 Peninsula is the rather rare Myristica cinnamomea, 

 and that is by no means strongly aromatic. 



LITERATURE 



Warburg, in his classic work, Die Muskatnuss, gives 

 eighteen pages dealing with the literature of the nut- 

 meg. A good many of the works quoted in this list 

 contain mere passing notices by travellers, and others 

 refer to scientific descriptions of species, or are works 

 unnecessary for the planter. 



The following list of books and papers of the more 

 important class, from an agriculturist's point of view, 

 may be useful. 



WARBURG, 0. Die Muskatnuss. "Uber die nutzbaren Muskatniisse." 



Pharmaceutische Gesellschaft, 1892, p. 212. 

 OXLEY, Dr. " Some Account of the Nutmeg." Journal of the East Indian 



Archipelago, voL iii. p. 642. " The Banda Nutmeg Plantations," I.e. 



voL i. (new series) p. 127. 

 LUMSDAINE. " Cultivation of Cloves and Nutmegs in Singapore," I.e. vol. 



v. p. 78. 

 Low, Col. JAMES. " Notes on the Progress of Nutmeg Cultivation," I.e. 



vol. v. p. 470. Dissertation on the Soil and Agriculture of Penang, 



1836. 

 LITTLE, R " Diseases of the Nutmeg Tree." Journal of the East Indian 



Archipelago, vol. iii. p. 678. 

 . COLLINGWOOD, Surgeon. " Nutmeg and other Cultivations in Singapore." 



Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, 1869, p. 45. 

 JANSE, J. M. De Nootmuskaat Cultural in de Minahassa en op de Banda 



Eilander. 



HOOPER, D. " Fats of Indian Nutmegs." Agricultural Ledger, 1907, No. 3. 

 HOLMES, E. M. " Nutmegs of Commerce." Pharmaceutical Journal, 



March 27, 1909, p. 419. 



