A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Promontorium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. promontorio: promontory, headland; “1. the highest part of a chain of mountains; a mountain ridge; 2. a part of a mountain projecting into the sea; a headland, promontory” (White, J.T. 1866, 27ed Latin-Eng. Dict. Ginn & Co. Boston (abridged)]; see cape [> L. pro, ‘before, in front of’ + mons,-montis ‘mountain’ + -orium].

Promontory (Eng.noun): “a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water beyond the line of coast: a headland; a bluff or prominent hill overlooking or projecting into a lowland” (WIII).

NOTE: abbrev. = promont.; also ‘prom.’;

- Prom. b. spei inter fruticeta in terra loci Lowenrücken dicti (Mueller), the Cape of Good Hope [Promontorium Bonae Spei] on the ground among the thickets of the place called Lowenrücken.

- promont. Van-Diemen (DeCandolle), at the Promontory [i.e. Cape] Van-Diemen.

- Promontorium Bonae Spei, Cape of Good Hope

- Promontorium Sacrum, abl.sg. Promontorio Sacro: Cape Saint Vincent, the southwestern promontory of Spain.

- Promontorium bonae spei, monte Boschberg, cum Ephemero capensi vigens, thriving on the cape of Good Hope, on the Boschberg mountain, with Ephemerum capsensis.

- a montibus Grampians et promontorio Cape Otway per Tasmaniam et passim per Australiae felicis et Novae Austro-Cambriae tractus litorales silvaticos (F. Mueller), from the Grampian mountains and the promontory Cape Otway throughout Tasmania and everywhere throughout the coastal forested region of Australia and New South Wales.

- in Hibernia ad basaltum pr. locum „ Giant's Causeway" promontorii Fairhead, societate Grimmiae maritimae (C. Mueller), in Ireland on basal near the place “Giant’s Causeway” of Fairhead promontory, in the society of Grimmia maritima.

Adonis capensis (ad prom. Bonae-Spei. DC.) DeCandolle, (at the promontory [= cape] of Good Hope).