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CELASTRUS BUXIFOLIUS. £B. INERMIS. 
SprnELESS Box-LEAVED STAFF-TREE. 
RR RE ER Ree a ae 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. 5-petala, patens. Caps. 3-angularis, 3-locularis, 
Sem. calyptrata. . 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Cetastrus buxifolius ; foliis obovatis obtusis crenulatis, 
cymis axillaribus dichotomis folio longioribus, 
(a.) spinosa; spinis foliosis nudisque. 
(8.) inermis ; sine spinis. 
Criastrus buxifolius ; spinis foliosis, ramis angulatis, foliis 
obtusis. Sp. Pl. 285. Willd. 1. p. 1128. Hort. Kew. 
ed. alt. 2. p. 26. Fabric. Helmst. p. 234. Houtt. Nat. 
Hist. 4. p. 312. ¢. 21. f. 1. : ; 
CELAstTRUS buxifolius ; ramis angulatis, foliis obovato-cunei- 
formibus obtusis, cymis lateralibus paucifloris. Lam. 
Encycl. 1. p. 661. 
Lycium portoricense, buxi foliis angustioribus. Pluk. Alm. 
234. t. 202. fig. 3. 
Ceastrus buxifolius has a near affinity with cymosus, 
figured above, No. 2070, from which it is chiefly distinguished 
by the latter having more compact cymes, which are shorter 
than the leaf from the axils of which they grow ; whilst in 
our present plant the cyme or panicle is more lax, more evi- 
dently dichotomous, and longer than the leaf. The variety 
(8.) seems to be always without spines as cultivated in our 
greenhouses, where it makes a pretty little shrub, but not at 
all shewy. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cultivated 
by Pure Mitrer in 1752. Flowers in May and June. 
Communicated by Mr. Brake, from the collection of James 
Yere, Esq. of Kensington Gore. 
