1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 278:
CHAP. XI.
Of Nutmeg, Mace, and Macir.
INdia affords us a certain aromatical Nut, which from its suaveolence is called Moschocaryon, Moschocarydion, […] and Nutmeg. […] Now Mace and Macir differ; for Mace is the hull of a Nut, and Macir the crass slave, or as Pliny saith, red bark of a certain wood brought from Barbary.
1973, Rajaram Narayan Saletore, Early Indian Economic History, Bombay : N. M. Tripathi
There can be no doubt that macir was certainly exported from India to Rome for Pliny observed that it was brought to Rome from India, that it was a bark that grew upon a large root and bore the name of the tree that produced it but he was ...
1912, The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean, page 25:
There are exported from these places myrrh, a little frankincense, (that known as far-side), the harder cinnamon, duaca, Indian copal and macir ...
2006, D. P. S. Peacock, A. C. S. Peacock, David Williams, Food for the Gods: New Light on the Ancient Incense Trade, Oxbow Books (→ISBN)
In return, traders could buy myrrh, frankincense, the harder cinnamon, Indian copal, and macir, a type of fragrant bark.
2016, Gwyn Campbell, Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World, Springer (→ISBN), page 162:
The chief exports from Tabai and Opone were myrrh, frankincense and cassia, but they also exported tortoise shell, slaves, spices, ivory, Indian copal and macir, an incense called “mocrutu” and fragrant gums (PME 7–13).
