92 WesTER: HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ROSELLE 
name Sabdariffa; one, a reversed cut from the one in L’Obel’s 
work named ‘‘Sabdariffa, Lobellij,”’ is the roselle plant, the other, 
‘Sabdariffa, Alia,” is very evidently another species, as the de- 
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FIGURE I. Roselle plant as figured by L’Obel in Stirpium Historia, 1576. 
scription also indicates. Clusius in Rariorum Plantarum Historia, 
published 1601, p. xxvi, has a remarkably good woodcut of the 
plant accompanied with the following description: 
