155, 156. 
DIGCIA MONADELPHIA. _Nav. Onp. MYRISTIC#, Be 
Gen. Cuar.—Masc. Cai. 0. Cor. campanulata, tri- (rarius 4-) fida. Fila 
mentum columnare. Anthere 6-10, connate. Foam. Cal. 0. Cor. cam- 
panulata, tr (varius An) fida, decidua. Stylus 0. Be al 2. Drupa 
nuce ae eeporeeum- —Willd. 
Myristica offtinali foliis oblongis acuminatis plabiis subtus albidis 
‘nervis simplicibus pedunculis uni- paucifloris, perianthio urceolato. 
M. Becta. Linn. Suppl. Pp 265. —Garrn. De Fruct. v.i. p.194. t. 41. £1, 
M. moschata, Tuuns. in Act. Holm. 1782. p: 45. _—WiLx. Sp. Pl. v. iv. p. 869. 
M. aromatica, “ Lam: Act. Par. 1788, Ded 55. t..55.0, 7 
La Muscade, SONNERAT, Voy. de la Nouv. Guin. pp. 194. t. 116, 117; 118. 
Nux Mpyristica seu Pala, Rumpu. Herb. Amboin. v. ii. p. 14. t. 4. 
The trunk of the Nutmeg Tree rises to a height of about 30 feet, with many 
spreading branches, and has been compared to that of a Pear-tree: the 
bark greyish-brown, and tolerably smooth, abounding i in a yellowish juice. 
Leaves slightly aromatic, almost destitute of stipule, from 5 to 6 inches 
long, oblong, approaching to elliptical, glabr ous, obtuse at the base, acu- 
minate at the extremity, quite entire at the margin, dark green and some- 
what shining above, beneath whitish, but neither pulver ulent nor downy; 
nerves parallel, simple, prominent, and of a brownish colour underneath. 
Petiols from half to three quarters of an inch in length, plane above. 
Of the Flowers ; the male and female are lateral and axillary, upon separate 
trees; but except by the blossom, it is not possible to distinguish one 
sex from another *. The exterior, both of the male and female flowers 
and of the pedicels, is cha clothed with reddish down. 
MALE BrowEns. 
Peduncles bearing the flowers in an imperfect kind of raceme, oF — 3 to 
5 5 single blossoms, about an inch long, sometimes forked ; the part that 
 * In Dr Roxsurcu’s MSS. at the India House, the. following curious fact is is Te- 
lated : ‘¢ In the Calcutta Botanic Garden, there are two trees of Nutmeg, which are se- 
Fen years and a half old, and from 16 to 12 feet i in height; for the two first years of © 
their blossoming, they had borne only male flowers, but in the months of November 
and December 1804, they produced only female flowers, and these proved fertile. sg 
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