INVESTIGATION OF PETROLEUM ETHER EXTRACT OF THE BULBS OF CRINUM AUGUSTUM ROX.

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Abstract

The bulbs of Crinum augustum Rox. Fam. Amaryllidaceae were extracted with ethanol (95%) by maceration and percolation. From the petroleum ether fraction four saturated straight chain hydrocarbons, 24-methylene cycloartanol and cycloeucalenol were isolated and identified. The identification of these compounds was based on GLC-Mass spectrometry. In addition, an alkaloid (ungeremine) was also isolated and characterized from the n-butanol extract.