Min. Obs. [Named by J. J. Berzelius in 1815, after Lobo da Silveira, who first described it: see -ITE.] Vesuvianite.
1816. W. Phillips, Introd. Min. (1823), 34. Berzelius mentions a ‘Magnesian Idocrase’ from Gōkum and Frugord, under the name of Lobōite.
1837. Dana, Min., 350. Idocrase … Loboit, Frugardit, Idokras, of the Germans.
