MACE.
Talzuffar, . . .ARAB. Bunga-pala, . . MALAY. Dza-deip-p'ho-bwen, By. Bunga-bna-pala, . „ Tau-kau•hwa, . CH.M. Bez baz, . . . PERS. . . „ Mushkatngi taoget, Bus. Foely, Footle, . . DoT. Jatipatri, . . . Muscaat-bloom,. „ Wassawassie, . SINGH.
F Flour do muscade, . R. Macto, SP.
Macis,Fn., GEL, IT., LAT. Flor do ROE moscado, „ Muskaten-bluthe, . GER. Jadiputri,. . . . TAX. Jaiwantry, Jaiputri,linra. Japatri, . . . TEL. Kambaugpala, . • JAV.
Mace is the aril or arillus of the nutmeg, and forms around the shell of the nutmeg. It has a pleasant aromatic smell, and a warm, bitterish, pungent taste; it is a favourite medicine of the Hindu physicians, who prescribe it in the slow stages of fever, etc. It is imported into India from Singapore, Batavia, and the Banda Islands. Mace is fleshy, branching, and, when recent, of a bright scarlet colour ; but in the process of drying it changes to yellow, orange-yellow, or, what is considered best, golden-yellow, and becomes transparent and horny. It is prepared by drying in the sun for some days. The aril is sometimes flattened out, and dried in a single laver, bus frequently also is pressed together in two layers. The Dutch sprinkle mace with salt water prior to packing it in sacks. London dealers distinguish
three sorts of true mace.
Penang Mace is flaky and spread, and fetches the highest price.
Dutch or Batavian Mace, a fleshy sort, scarcely so high priced as the Penang mace.
Singapore Mace, a somewhat inferior kind.
The mace of the male or false nutmeg is dis tinguished from the true mace by being formed of three or four regular bands united at the summit. The chemical properties of this article are analogous to that of the true mace, but the oil is so inferior that the male mace is but of little commercial value, and is used in India only among the poorer natives. It is procurable in most bazars under the name of Ramputri, is of a dark-red colour, and deficient in flavour and aroma. ' Mace oil.
Jaiwantry, . . HIND. I Wassa wasitali, SINGH.
Jaiputri-ka-tel, . . „ Jaiputri tailum, . TAM.
A brown-coloured, highly-fragrant, almost solid soil. It is obtained by expression, and is of a butyraceous consistence. It is very stimulant, and is much employed as a liniment and embrocation in rheumatism.—Faulkner ; M. E. J. .R.; Food Adulteration; OP Culloch ; Mason ; Powell; Poole.