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: Voissius takes it to be the former, since Hanno did not proceed so far as the latter cape.

HESPERIDEÆ, in Botany (from the Hesperides); golden or precious fruit: the name of the 19th order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method. See BOTANY.