Polysaccharides ofPolygonatum. VI. A study of the structure of a glucomannan fromPolygonatum sewerzowii by13C NMR spectroscopy,electron microscopy,and x-radiography

A phytoecdysteroid, sileneoside D, has been isolated from the roots ofSilene brahuica Boiss. and it has been shown to be ecdysterone 3-O--D-galactopyranoside.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 741–744, November–December, 1984.