Fragrant nutmeg, Myristica fragrans. Native to the Moluccas (Makuku) and the Banda islands, this specimen drawn by Rev. Lansdown Guilding on St. Vincent Island, West Indies. Tree, male and female flowers and young fruit. True nutmeg, Myristica officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan from William Jackson Hooker's Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.

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