“…The alcoholic crude extract was suspended in water and sequentially extracted with cyclohexane, CH 2 Cl 2 and n-BuOH. The CH 2 Cl 2 extract was concentrated to dryness and subjected to silica gel column chromatography, Sephadex LH-20 and preparative thin layer chromatography (PTLC) to afford eight new compounds 1-8 ( Figure 1) together with 28 previously described compounds 9-35 which were identified as para-ethoxybenzyl alcohol (9) [18,19], 3,4,6-trimethoxyl-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-2,7-diol (10) [20], confusarin (11) [21], erianthridin (12) [22], para-hydroxybenzaldehyde (13) [18], nudol (14) [23], cephathrene-B (15) [24], gigantol (16) [25], batatasin III (17) [26], ephemeranthoquinone (18) [27], coelonin (19) [28], 2,4-dimethoxy-phenanthrene-3,7-diol (20) [29], lusianthridin (21) [30], densiflorol B (22) [31], denthyrsinin (23) [32], bleformins A (24) and B (25) [33], chrysoeriol (26) [34,35], vanillic alcool (27) [36], gastrodigenin (28) [37,38], 1-(4-hydroxybenzyl)-4-methoxyl-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-2,7-diol (29) [39], shancidin (30) …”