Species Sparrmannia ricinocarpa

For Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748–1820), Swedish botanist and physician, and pupil of Linnaeus. He visited Canton (1765–1767), completed his medical studies (1770), and visited the Cape in 1772, where he botanised around Cape Town with Carl Peter Thunberg. That year, Captain Cook’s expedition to circumnavigate the world reached the Cape. Sparrman was invited to join them. They returned in 1775, and Sparrman spent from July 1775 to April 1776 exploring and collecting in the Eastern Cape. He recorded these experiences in his A Journey to the Cape of Good Hope ... (1777). He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1777 and was its president from 1778–1785. From 1790–1803, he was professor of natural history and pharmacy at the Royal Collegium Medicum in Stockholm.