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the Spindle Tree, which grows commonly in Hedges in moft 
Counties of England, for the Leaves thereof bear a very great 
Relemblance to thofe expreflfed in Alpinus's Figure. 
y. B. who only copies from Alpinus, what he has (aid about 
this Plant, agrees with him likewife in calling it a Tree, and both 
• be and his Brother C. B. compare it to the Euonymus, without 
any farther Explication. 
Petrus de la Valle, the celebrated Italian in a Letter 
dtLtcd 3.t Conjlantinople, i 6 i^, calls it alfo a Tree. It grows, he 
lays, near Mecca and of the Fruit the Turks Drink is made. 
Garcias Siha Fizueroa, in the Account he has given us of his 
own EmbalTy from Spain to Perjta, begun in i 6 ij, tells us that 
the Perjians made their Coffee of certain Herbs. 
Vejlingius, in his Notes on Alpinus ^ 1^38, gives this Plant 
the Name of a Tree^ but at the fame time owns he had never 
feen it. 
Parkinfon compares it to the Prickle Timber, or Prickwood 
Tree, which he takes to be the Euonyynus of Alpinus, 
Banejius, m the firfl; Treatife that was ever publifli’d expreflly, 
on Coffee, i 6 ji, is likewife the firfl whom 1 End to have cal- 
led this Plant a Shrub or Bufh ; which are the Names he con- 
flantly gives it thro’ his whole Book. And as he has likewife 
quoted Alpinus' s Account of it, the Englifi Tranflator thinks fit 
to add, by way of Note, that the Euonymus is by our Botanifls 
term’d the Spindle Tree, or Prickwood j but it is believ’d ( fays 
he, without telling us by whom, or for what Reafon) that it is 
not Alpinus' s Euonymus. 
Chahraus, in his Seiographia Stirpium, iC-jZ, joins with the 
other Authors in calling the Coffee Plant a Tree; but it is meerly 
upon the Authority of Alpinus, who indeed is the only Perfon, 
during all this time, that appears to have ever feen it 5 for Bane- 
jius no where fays that he did 5 and the reft either frankly own 
they never did, or fay nothing about the Plant at all. 
Monf Bernier has fomething new upon this Head, bur we 
ihall fee prefently, from Monf La Roque, that he- has been very 
j11 inform’d. ^ I cannot tell you (fays he to Monf Bu Four, in a 
Letter publifh’d with that Author’s Treatife on Coffee) whether 
‘ Coffee be a kind of Bean, which is (own every Year as we do 
ours, or the Fruit of fome Shrub; I find nothing upon that 
' Head in my Journals ; but what I can affure you of is, that 
* it muft be a Species of Convolvulus, becaufe I remember per- 
‘ feclly well to have been told that it is always planted near the 
Mouze, to which it clings, and fb fupports its felf ’ This 
Mouze 
