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DICECIA MONADELPHIA. 
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14068 Leaves somewhat orbicular cordate at base 7-nerved or little downy, Fem. racemes tlie length of leaves 
14069 Lvs. ovate bluntish smooth on short stalks, Racemes much branched, male ? scarcely longer than petiole 
14070 Monoecious diandrous, Leaves oblong serrated 
14071 Leaves oblong downy serrated 
14072 Leaves obovate entire 
14073 Leaves oblong blunt entire fascicled. Spines axillary 
14074 Leaves cordate glandular on the limb 
14075 Leaves oblong acuminate smooth. Veins simple, Fruit solitary smooth 
14076 Leaves oblong lanceolate with starry down beneath. Veins simple, Fruit racemose downy 
14077 Leaves sessile. Pitchers cylindrical, Flowers panicled 
14078 Leaves sessile linear lanceolate acute, Flowers axillary solitary 
14079 Leaves sessile obovate acute. Peduncles about 3-fl. axillary 
14080 Leaves subsessile lanceolate obovate, Flowers axillary solitary 
14081 Leaves subsessile linear-lanceolate acute thickish. Flowers axillary twin 
14{)82 Leaves stalked linear blunt mucronate revolute at edge, Flowers axillary subsolitary on long stalks 
14083 I^eaves elliptical blunt densely downy on each side. Flowers axillary solitary sessile 
14084 Leaves stalked ovate acute smooth, Flowers in 5s axillary 
14085 Leaves stalked elliptical blunt somewhat retuse smooth shining. Flowers axillary polygamous about 3 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
in bottles, and the expressed oil in stone jars. Nutmegs are frequently punctured and boiled in order to ob- 
tain the essential oil, and the orifices afterwards closed with powdered sassafras. The fraud is detected by the 
lightness of the nutmeg. The nutmeg has a fragrant, agreeable, spicy odor, and a warm aromatic taste. 
As the medical properties of nutmeg and mace depend on the essential oil they contain, they agree in these 
circumstances ; and both are stimulant, carminative, and, in large doses, narcotic. Mace is more generally 
used as a culinary spice; but the nutmeg and its volatile oil are in frequent use to cover the disagreeable taste 
of other medicines, and are sometimes ordered in cases of languor, vomiting, and diarrhoea, and in flatulent 
colic. On account of the narcotic property of the oil, nutmeg should be cautiously employed in apoplectic and 
paralytic habits. In India its dangerous effects have been frequently felt ; and in this country instances have 
occurred in which the nutmeg, taken in large quantity, produced drowsiness, great stupor, and insensibility, 
and on awakening delirium, which alternated with sleep for several hours. {Thorn. Land. Disp. p. 395.) 
M. fatua is a branching lofty tree; the branches long, tortuous and declining; the leafy and flowering 
branches downy and ferruginous ; and the flowers in axillary and terminal clusters. The fruit varies in size 
and form on ditferent trees; but is generally oblong, and about as long as a pigeon's egg. From the kernel is 
extracted a species of yellowish suet or fat, which serves for various medical and economical purposes, and is 
made into candles. From the wounded bark flows a red acrid juice. The plants are at present rare in British 
collections : they grow in light loam and peat, and may be increased by cuttings in sand under a bell-glass. 
2121. Neperdhes. The name under which Homer speaks of a substance, which appears to have been opium. 
It is impossible to conceive in what sense the word has been applied to the plants now bearing the name. They 
are the famous pitcher-plants of China and the East Indies, which bear leaves, the extremities of which are 
hollowed out into cup-like appendages, which are generally filled with water, which seems as if confined 
within them by a little lid, by which the pitchers are surmounted. The cultivation of the plants is extremely 
difficult. It requires a very damp atmosphere, much heat, and perhaps, not much light. They are managed 
more successfully by Loddiges of Hackney, than by any cultivators in this country. 
2122. Cliiytia. Named by Boerhaave, after Outgers Cluyt, or Augier Clutius, a Dutchman, and professor of 
botany at Leyden. He published, in 1634, a little tract upon the Cocoa-nut of the Maldives, which he called 
nux-medica. The species are of little beauty or interest, and of the easiest propagation and culture. 
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