Pharmaceutical botany - Lighthouse Survival Blog
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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY<br />
Family 6. MYRisxiCACEyE.—An order of apetalous trees—the<br />
nutmeg family—comprising the single genus Myristica, of about 80<br />
species.<br />
Myristica.—A large tropical genus of fragrant, apetalous trees<br />
the nutmegs—coextensive with the nutmeg family, having alternate,<br />
entire, often punctate leaves, small dioecious regular flowers, and a<br />
succulent, two-valved one-celled fruit with a solitary seed usually<br />
covered by a lancinate aril.<br />
M. fragrans, a handsome tree, 20 to 30 feet high, of the Malay<br />
archipelago, supplies the nutmegs and mace of commerce.<br />
Official drug<br />
Myristica<br />
Oleum Myristicae<br />
Family 7.<br />
Part used<br />
Kernel of seed<br />
Volatile oil<br />
Botanical name<br />
Myristica fragrans<br />
Myristica fragrans<br />
Laurace^ or Laurel Family.—A family of aromatic<br />
trees or shrubs with alternate, coriaceous, pellucid punctate leaves<br />
containing considerable volatile oil; flowers polygamous, each having<br />
a calyx of four or six colored sepals.<br />
Official drug