Mace loses its carmine color upon drying and becomes reddish-brown and very brittle. It has an odor and taste similar to those of the nut, but is more delicately aromatic. Wild or Bombay mace is obtained from _Myristica fatua_ and is frequently used to adulterate the true mace or Banda mace. The nuts of _M. fatua_ are longer than those of _M. fragrans_ and are therefore designated as long nutmegs; the term "male nutmegs" applied to them is incorrect. The long nutmeg is greatly inferior to the true nutmeg, or round nutmeg as it is sometimes called. Banda supplies by far the most nutmegs at the present time. Penang nutmegs are of excellent quality and are always placed upon the market unlimed, but they are frequently limed subsequently in foreign ports and markets. Singapore nutmegs are usually unlimed. Nutmegs are generally designated by the name of the country from which they are obtained, as Dutch or Batavian, Sumatra, Penang, Singapore, Java, and Banda nutmegs. There are a number of so-called nutmegs which are derived from plants not even remotely related to _Myristica_. Ackawai, Camara, or Camaru nutmeg is the nut of a tree growing in Guiana highly valued as a cure for colic and dysentery. American, Jamaica, Mexican, or Calabash nutmeg is the spicy seed of _Monodora Myristica_. Brazilian nutmeg is the seed of _Cryptocarya moschata_, which serves as a very inferior substitute for nutmeg. California nutmeg is the fruit of a conifer (_Torreya_), which resembles nutmeg so closely in appearance that it has been supposed that _Myristica fragrans_ was a native of California. This fruit has, however, a very camphoraceous odor. Clove or Madagascar nutmeg is the fruit of _Ravensara aromatica_, a tree native in Madagascar. Peruvian nutmeg is the seed of _Laurelia sempervirens_. The nutmeg has a peculiar mottled appearance, ranging from grayish brown to light gray or white in the limed article, the depressions and grooves holding the lime while the ridges and elevations are free from it. In Shakespeare's Henry V. the Duke of Orleans, in speaking of the dauphin's dapple-gray horse, says: "He's of the color of nutmeg." The taste of nutmeg is peculiarly aromatic, pungent, and somewhat bitter.