“…From the stems of C. spinarum, 12 compounds namely scopoletin (1) (Vasconcelos et al, 1998), (À)-nortrachelogenin (2) (Achenbach et al, 1983;Lin et al, 1999), (À)carissanol (3) (Khamlach et al, 1990), (À)-carinol (4) (Khamlach et al, 1990), (+)-cycloolivil (5) (Ghogomu-Tih et al, 1985), (+)-8-hydroxypinoresinol (6) (Yeo et al, 2004), (À)-olivil (7) (Yeo et al, 2004), (À)-secoisolariciresinol (8) (Xie et al, 2003), (+)-pinoresinol (9) (Xie et al, 2003), carissone (10) (Achenbach et al, 1985), digitoxigenin-3-Ob-D-digitalopyranoside (11) (Cabrera et al, 1993) and evomonoside (12) (Hyun et al, 1995) were isolated and identified by comparison of their spectral data with reported values (Fig. 1).…”