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familiar to him. It is worth while to quote the whole passage, 
which he devotes to monstrous and double nutmegs, were it 
only once more to call to memory how careful and well- 
informed the naturalist Rumpsivs was. I quote in latin, the lan- 
guage in which he originally described his rich store of ad- 
mirable observations which were unfortunately terminated by 
loss of sight. 
»Prima itaque arbor mas, et Pala Boy dicta, plurimos flores 
gerit, sed raros, et majores fructus, quasi geminos, qui ple- 
rumque anterius cruce quasi notati sunt, uti et subsequens 
Pala-Bacambar. Raro occurrunt, et semper solae ab aliis re- 
motae arboribus, et soli bene expositis locis, videturque haec 
species degenerata esse a vera Nuce moschata: Praeter binas 
hasce species nux aromatica alias quoque habet varietates, et 
abortus, quae autem non diversam constituunt speciem, uti 
primum Pala-Bacambar: seu nuces geminas; in Banda Pala- 
kende-kende dictas, cujus fructus externis duplicem habet sul-_ 
cum, cruciatim supra sese decurrentem, caeterum vulgari si- 
milis est, vel paulo major, inque hoc continetur Pala-Bacambar, 
binos gerens nucleos sibi invicem junctos, quisque autem suo 
includitur putamine, atque sua obvolvitur maci. Ad latera 
vero, ubi sibi invicem junguntur, sunt plani intermedia cras- 
siore locata maci, unde et interiores nuces modo semi-rotundae 
sunt”’, . 
The above descriptions almost completely correspond with 
the peculiarities of the cases sent from Buitenzorg; but the 
expressions: ,species, varietates” etc. seem to indicate that 
monstrous and double nutmegs are not so rare as the best 
modern books on Teratology would have one believe '). 
1) Neither Masters nor Penzig speak of double nutmegs. 
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