The genus Rabdosia japonica (Burm. f.) Hara var. glaucocalyx (Maxim.) Hara is a member of the family Labiatae, subfamily Ocimoideae, tribe Plectrantheae and is mainly distributed in northeast Asia, such as China, Russian, Korea and Japan 1 . It possesses some pharmacological functions, such as antitumor, antioxidation, antiinflammatory and antibacteria 2 . Results of toxicological tests indicated that the Rabdosia japonica var. glaucocalyx is safe to human within the scope of the experimental dose 3 . As for the chemical constituents of the plant, diterpenoids 4-8 , flavonoids 9-11 and triterpenoids 12,13 are the major constituents in the whole plant. In the course of further studies, six compounds were obtained and their structures were identified as glaucocalyxin G (1), arjunglucoside (2) 14 , kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside (3) 15 , quercetin-3-O -α-Lrhamnoside (4) 16 , rutin (5) 16 and acacetin-7-O-β-D -glucoside (6) 11 on the basis of their NMR spectral data and by comparison of their physical properties with those reported in the literatures. Compound 1 was a new ent-kaurane diterpenoid glycoside from R. japonica var. glaucocalyx, though the diterpenoids have been regarded as the marking composition of tribe Plectrantheae, there was few report about diterpenoids glycoside of the tribe. compounds 2 and 3 have not been reported before from the plant source.
EXPERIMENTALESI-MS and HRESI-MS were performed with a Mat-212 and a Micro mass Auto Spec Q-TOF spectrometers, respectively. 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker DRX-500 spectrometer with tetramethylsilane as an internal Chemical Constituents from n-Butanol Extract of Rabdosia japonica var. glaucocalyx