“…It is reported that flavan-3,4-diols were involved as intermediate substances in flavan-3-ol biosynthesis catalyzed by reductase reaction (Drewes & Roux, 1965). The other isolated compounds were successively identified as 1,2,3-benzenetriol (2), butin (3), 2 000 ,3 000 -dihydroxylupinifolin (4), lupinifolin (5), 8-methoxy-7,3 0 ,4 0 -trihydroxyflavone (6), 7,8,3 0 ,4 0 -tetrahydroxyflavone (7), lupeol (8), stigmasta-5,22-dien-3-one (9), and a mixture of b-sitosterol and stigmasterol by the analysis of their NMR spectra and by comparing with the data reported in the literature (Herath et al, 2009;Mahidol et al, 1997Mahidol et al, , 2002Porter & Foo, 1982;Reynolds et al, 1986). Compounds 1-4 were first isolated herein from the genus Albizia.…”