compounds with glucuronic acid have been found in mammals, which are probably analogous to C-glycosylated compounds in plants. C-Glucuronides of drugs in man [10] and other mammals [11, 12] represent a novel type of drug metabolite. As regards the biosynthetic pathway which leads to the formation of the carbon-carbon bond in C-glycosides, very little is known. In some cases it is thought that the attachment of the sugar moiety takes place during an early stage of the aglycone formation but definite proof is still missing and cannot be generalized for all groups of the C-glycosides. The aim of this article is to present a short review of the principal structural features and occurrence of the different classes of C-glycosides and further, to discuss the few biosynthetic findings of the C-glycosyl attachment which have been published so far. C-Glycosyl Flavonoids Chemistry of C-glycosyl Flavonoids As it has been pointed out, this group of C-glycosides has been the subject of a still increasing number of reports, which mainly deal with the occurrence and structural investigation of these compounds. Since they have been the subject of several review articles [3, 6, 7, 13, 14] only the main features are given here. At the present over one hundred C-glycosyl flavonoids have been shown to exist in the plant kingdom. The model compound and one of the first to be isolated was vitexin (8-C-3-D-glucopyranosylapigenm) (Fig. 2), the structure of which was established