CAVANILLES, ANTONIO JOSE Spanish botanist, was born in Valencia on Jan. 16, 1745. In 1801 he be came director of the botanic gardens at Madrid, where he died on May 4, 1804. In 1785-86 he published Monadelphiae Classis Dissertationes X., and in 1791 he began to issue Icones et descrip tiones plantarum Hispaniae.