N. O. ilYRlSTICL.I . 1097 



Habitat : — The Concan, Canara and N. Malabar. 



A large, nearly glabrous tree. Wood reddish-grey, moder- 

 ately hard. Branchlets nearly smooth, slightly ribbed. Leaves 

 4-8in. by lj-4in., linear-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, sub-acute, 

 glaucous beneath, thinly coriaceous on the flowering branches, 

 thick and leathery on the fruiting, more or less shining above, 

 nerves 8-14 pair, very slender; petiole f-lin. Male panicles 

 sub-cymose, bracteolate, l-ljin., axillary or supra-axillary ; 

 peduncles naked below, sub-umbellately cymose above ; 

 bracteole an orbicular scale. Perianth -|in., puberulous globose, 

 3 -toothed ; anthers 10-15, connate, in a cylindric, shortly 

 stipitate column. Female panicles few-fid ; flowers larger. Fruit 

 2 by lin., rusty, brown, pubescent, narrowly oblong, aril yellow, 

 completely enclosing the seed (J. D. Hooker and Brandis). 



Uses:— "It yields a variety of nutmeg (Malabar or false 

 Nutmeg ?), larger and much longer than the officinal nutmeg, and 

 possessing little of its fragrance or its warm aromatic taste. When 

 braised and subjected to boiling, it yields a considerable quantity 

 of a yellowish concrete oil, analogous to expressed oil of nutmeg, 

 which has been represented to the Editor as a most efficacious 

 application to indolent and ill-conditioned ulcers, allaying pain, 

 cleansing the surface and establishing healthy action. For this 

 purpose it requires to be melted down with a small quantity of 

 any bland oil. It may be found serviceable as an embrocation 

 in rheumatism. (Ph. Inch, p : 190.) 



The seeds in the form of a lep are used as an external appli- 

 cation in Bombajf. (Dymock.) 



" The avillus jdyapatri is considered to be a nervine tonic and 



is used in stopping vomiting," (Dr. Peters in Watt's Die.) 



The dried juices from the bark of several Asiatic species of Myristica 

 show but little difference from officinal Malabar Kino. The crude, inspis- 

 sated, fresh juice from the Myristica species differs by containing crystalline 

 calcium tartarate suspended in, and depositing from it. This distinguishes 

 it from all the other kinos of commerce. (Edward Schaer, Ph. J. Trans. 

 1896.) 



The seeds contain 40 7 per cent, of fat, and the mace 63'2 per cent., in 

 each case the fat is associated with a red resin. Bombay mace differs entirely 

 in its composition from that of genuine mace (M. fragrans, Houtt.). According 

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