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### 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.*