Pioneer spike-thorn or common spike-thorn, Gymnosporia buxifolia. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, communicated by Robert Sweet of Stockwell Nursery. Compact-flowered staff-tree, Celastrus cymosus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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