[1] From the gaiety of its flowers, which, from their stripes, appear like an object decorated with ribbands.—Vitta, a ribband; vittata, dressed with ribbands. Ainsw.
[2] The leaves being somewhat like those of the Myrtle, and a gummy substance exuding from the plant as in the Gum Cistus.
[3] In his Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques, et Botaniques, faites sur les CÔtes Orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, &c. printed in 1714.