Abstract: | A study has been made of the surface lipids and essential oil of the seeds of three species ofFerula: F. lapidosa, F. ceratophylla, andF. tschimganica. It has been shown that the surface lipids are characterized by a high content of saturated hydrocarbons, and a lipid extract of the seeds contained 50% of triacylglycerols.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 571–573, September–October, 1984. |