> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 866](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190337) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8542-1) LSID 8542-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607346) QID Q21607346 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Roig y Mesa, Juan Tomás (1878-?), Cuban botanist; Dr. pharm. Univ. Habana 1910; Dr. Ci. nat. 1912; head of the botany dept. of the Ist. exp. agron. Santiago de las Vegas 1913; teacher natural history at Pinar del Rio 1917-1932; again at Santiago de las Vegas as head of the botany dept. from 1932. **Abbreviated name**: *Roig* \[standard form in IPNI: *Roig*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection HAC|HAC]], [[Collection HAJB|HAJB]]; further material at [[Collection NY|NY]] and [[Collection US|US]].– Barnhart (2: 173) mentions a private herbarium (in 1938) of 9000 sheets. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 173 (b. 21 Mai 1878, personal comm. Roig to Barnhart); BL 1: 225, 226, 315; IH 1 (ed. 7): 341; Langman p. 639; Lenley p. 352. #### Biofile - Conde, J.A., Hist. bot. Cuba 54, 97, 111, 302, 303, 315-316, 321 (portr.). 1958 (b. 31 Mai 1877). - Moldenke, H.N., Plant Life 2: 79. 1946 (1948) (epon.). #### Eponymy *Roigia* Britton (1920). #### Postage stamps Cuba 50 c. (1977), yv. bl. 50. ### Publications ##### n.9463. Cactáceas de la Flora cubana **Title** Universidad de la Habana. *Cactáceas de la Flora cubana*. Tesis para el grado de doctor en ciencias naturales... Habana (Imprenta el Siglo XX de Aurelio Miranda..) 1912. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cact. fl. cub.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1912, p. \[1\]-58, *6 pl*. (5 photos & 1 diagr.). *Copy*: US. ##### n.9464. Diccionario botanico **Title** *Diccionario botanico* de nombres vulgares cubanos... Habana (Imprenta y Papeleria de Rambla, Bouza y Ca....) 1928, 3 parts. **Abbreviated title**: *Dicc. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: in three parts, 1928, as Boletim numb. 54 of the Estación experimental agronomica, Santiago de las Vegas. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, US, USDA. *1*: Feb 1928 (cover), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-247, *pl. 1-8.* *2*: Feb 1928, p. \[i-ii\], \[249\]-598, *pl. 9-38.* *3*: Feb 1928, p. \[i-iv\], \[599\]-897, \[1-6, err.\], *pl. 39-48.* *Ed. 2*: n.v. *Ed. 3*: 1965, 2 parts. *Copy*: NY. *1*: \[1\]-599, *pl. 1-34.* *2*: \[603\]-1142, *pl. 35-61.*