N. O. MYIlltSTIOlvK 1097 
Habitat : — The Cloncan, Canara and N. Malabar. 
A large, nearly glabrous tree. Wood reddish-grey, moder- 
ately hard. Branchlets nearly smooth, slightly ribbed. Leaves 
4-8in. by l£-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, 1-l^in., axillary or supra-axillary ; 
peduncles naked below, sub-umbellately cymose above ; 
bracteole an orbicular scale. Perianth -J-in., puberulous globose, 
3-toothed ; anthers 10-15, connate, in a cylindric, shortly 
stipitate column. Female) panicles few-fid ; flowers larger. Fruit 
2 by 1 in., 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 £tnd much longer than the officinal nutmeg, and 
possessing little of its fragrance or its warm aromatic taste. When 
bruised 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. Ind., p : 190.) 
The seeds in the form of a lep are used as an external appli- 
cation in Bombay. (Dymock.) 
“ The arillus 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 soveral Asiatic species of Myristicu 
show but little difference from officinal Malabar Kino. The crude, inspis- 
sated, fresh juice from thp Myristiea 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. 
1806.) 
Tho seeds contain 10 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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