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as a drug, especially because it is the only stimulant known which 

 is not succeeded by a period of depression. Habitual coffee-drinkers 

 develop a certain degree of immunity from the physiological effects 

 of caffeine. Therefore, its medicinal dosage is uncertain because 

 of marked variations in individual susceptibility. 



Prelinnaean References: — Buna Clusius Exoticorum PL Hist. (1605) 

 236 cum ic. semen; Euonymo similis .^gyptiaca, fructu baccis lauri- 

 simili C. Bauhin Pinax (1623) 428 ed. 2 (1681) 428; Arbor Bon 

 cum fructu sue Buna Parkinson Theatr. Bot. (1640) 1622 cum ic. ; 

 Coffee Frutex ex cujus Fructu fit Potus Ray Hist. PL 2 (1693) 1691 ; 

 Du Caffe Pomet Hist. Gen. Drogues (1694) 204 avec Tabl. ; Bon 

 vel Ban Pluk. Almagest. Bot. (1696) 69, t. 272, f. i ; Jasminum 

 arabicum, lauri folio, cujus semen apud nos coffe dicitur B. Jussieu 

 in Act. Acad. Par. (1713) 388, t. 7; Jasminum; Arabicum; Castaneae 

 folio; flore albo, odoratissimo; cujus fructus Coffy, in Officinis dicuntur 

 Nobis Boerhaave Ind. Alter PL Ludg-Bat. 2 (1720) 217; Bon Alpino 

 De PL i^gypt. ed. i (1592) 36, t. 36; De Bon Vesling De PL i^gypt 

 (1638) 21; Bon vel Ban Arbor (Bunchus Arabum) Chabraeo Stirp. 

 Ic. et Sciagr. (1666) 32 cum ic; Coffea L. Hort. Cliff. (1737) 59; 

 Coffea Royen FL Leyd. Prodr. (1740) 239; Coffea L. Hort. Ups. 

 (1748) 41; Mat. Med. ed. i (1749) 24. 



Bibliography: — L. Sp. PL ed. i (1753) 172; Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 

 7. — Ellis Monogr. Coffee (1774). — Lam. Encycl. Bot. i (1783) 550; 

 TabL (1792) t. 160 f. I. — Gaertn. Frucht. Sem. (1788) t. 25. — Plenck Ic. 

 PL Med. (1789) t. 130. — Lour. FL Cochinch. i (1790) 144. — ^Woodville 

 SuppL Med. Bot. 4 (1794) 48, t. 230; Med. Bot. ed. 2, i (1810) 182 

 t. 70. — Coyte Index PL i (1807) lOO. — Tuss. FL AntilL i (1808) 121- 

 140 t. 18; Bot. Mag. 32 (1810) 1303 t. 1303. — Chaumeton FL Med. 

 2 (1815) loi t. 85; Diet. ScL Nat. Planches 3 (1816-29) t. 5. — Roques 

 Phytographie Med. 2 (1821) 49 t. 96. — Moon Cat. PL Ceylon (1824) 

 15.— Roxb. FL Ind. ed. i (WalL) 2 (1824) 193; ed. 2, i (1832) 539- 

 — Spreng. Syst. Veg. i (1825) 755. — Blume Bijdr. FL Nederl. (1826) 

 965. — Ness von Esenbeck PL Med. 2 (1828) t. 257. — Sert. Bot. 2 

 (1829) t. 6.— DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 499.— Steph. & Churchill Med. 

 Bot. 4 (1831) 182 t. 182.— WalL Cat. (1832) 6243.— Kosteleszky Med. 

 FL 2 (1833) 556-558.— G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlam. PL 3 (1834) 579 

 f. 107.— Wight & Arn. Prodr. i (1834) 435-— Blanco FL Filip. (1837) 

 156.— Lindley FL Med. (1838) 440.— A. Richard Tent. FL Abyss, i 

 (1838-43) 349.— Morch. Cat. PL Hort. Bot. Hasn. (1839) 30.— Bur- 

 nett PL Util. I (1840) t. 13. — Heynh. Nomen. Bot. Hort. (1840) 210. 

 — Wight Ic. PL Ind. Or. i (1840) t. 53- — Spach Hist. Nat. Veget. 

 Planch. (1846) t. 63.— Mason FL Burmanica (1856) 598.— Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bot. 2 (1856-59) 304; Sumatra (1862) 57, 76; Ann. Mus. 

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 338. — Marchand Recherches Organogr. et Organogen. Coffea arabica L. 

 (1864).— G. BernoulH in Bot. Zeit. (1869) 19.— Bedd. FL Sylv. (1873) 

 t. 17, f. I. — Gard. Chron. ser. 2, 6 (July 1876) 105 t. 27 f. a (berry); 

 d (leaf). — Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, i (1876) 170-1. — Baker 



