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CHAP. n. 
Etymologia. 
B y thefe Names, and no more, that I can find, have the 
Coffee plant, the Fruit thereof, and the Liquor made w ith 
that Fruit, been expreffed. The Lifts I have here given of them> 
tho’ they cannot I believe be of much folid Ufe, may perhaps 
entertain the Curiofity of fome of my Readers ; and fince I have 
been at the Trouble of colleding them merely with that View, 
it will be ftill worth while to add the few following Obfervations 
about them. 
I. Tho’ fbme of theft Names are common to the whole Plant, 
Fruit, and Liquor; there are many which are either peculiar to 
each, or which belong only to two of them j and therefore it was 
moft natural to ftparate them into three diftincl lifts, inftead of 
throwing them all into one confuftd heap, as has been the gene- 
ral pradiice of Botanifts hitherto. Mr. Ray lliall ftrve for an Ex- 
ample of this. 
The Name he gives the Plant, is this. Coffee frutex ex cujus 
fruUu ft potus. 
The Synonyma or Names he ftts down from other Authors are 
theft. 
Bon njel Ban Arbor, J. B. Item, Buna, Bunnu, Bmichos Ara- 
lum ejufdem. Bon Arbor cum fruefu fuo Buna, Park. Euonymo 
fmilis Egyptiaca fru&u baccisLauri fmiUy C. B. Bunnu, Rauwolf. 
Buna ex qua in Alexandria ft potio, Cluf 
Never v/as there a Lift of Synonyma compiled with left Judg- 
ment than thisj for in the firft place, it is defective by above 
four pares in five, as will appear by comparing it with mine 
and Defehls of this kind are more inexcufable in Mr. Ray than 
in any body elftj for as he has done little any where but colled; 
from other Authors, the leaft that could be expeded from him, 
is, that his Colledions lliould be perfed, after ft) many Years 
Pradice. 
Again, the Order of Time, in obftrving which with Exad- 
neft, the greateft Beauty of fuch Compilations certainly confifts, 
is entirely negleded , Rau^cjolfius and Clujius are placed after the 
two Bauhini and Parkinfon. 
But, which is moft to my preftnt purpoft, above half his Sy- 
nonyma are falft, J. B. never called the Coffee Plant Buna, 
Bunnu, 
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