called the Great Bay by the author of Hanno's Periplus: but most interpreters, following Mela, understand a promontory; some Cape Verd, others Palmas Cape: Vossius takes it to be the former, since Hanno did not proceed so far as the latter cape.

HESPERIDEÆ (from the Hesperides, whose orchards are said to have produced golden apples), golden or precious fruit: the name of the 16th order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method. See Botany, p. 461.