Summary. The seeds of Dregea abyssinica (HOCHST.) K. SCHUM. are very rich in glycosides.These consist of a complicated mixture of ester glycosides, cardenolides are absent. All these glycosides are derived from only the two known pregnane derivatives drevogenin P and drevogenin D. I n the glycosides the latter are esterified with different acids (acetic, isovaleric, cr-hydroxyisovaleric and tiglic acid) and glycosidically linked to different 2-deoxy-sugars which in part carry 3-O-methyl-6-deoxy-~-allose and terminal D-glucose. After mild acidic hydrolysis 5 crystalline sugars and 6 crystalline aglycones could be isolated. The sugars were identified as D-Cymarose, asclepohiose, pachybiose, drebyssobiose and ((sugar T )) (formerly found in Dregea volubilis) .The following aglycones were obtained: drevogenin A, drevogenin B, and four new compounds called drehyssogenin F, G, J and K. The latter was a mixture of two components (K1 and K2). From the original mixture four genuine glycosides could be isolated (the drebyssosides 1, 2, 3 and 4). Of these the drebyssosides 1 and 3 were obtained crystalline, drebyssoside 2 in amorphous but pure form and drebyssoside 4 as a mixture of mainly two closely related components. The probable structures of the new substances (drebyssobiose, sugar T, the four drebyssogenins and the four drehyssosides) are reported in the following publication.