“…Compounds 1Ð5 (Fig. 1) were identified as 8--hydroxypimar-15-en-19-oic acid (1), taxodione (2), 6,7-dehydro-8-hydrotaxodone (3), quercetin-3-O--d-glucopyranoside (4), and shikimic acid (5) by comparing their IR, UV, MS, 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra with the available reported data (Silverstein et al, 1991;Ramos et al, 1984;Khabir et al, 1986;Simoes et al, 1986;Rodriguez-Hahn et al, 1989;Geiger et al, 1995;Lambert et al, 1998;Ahmed and El-Emary, 1999;Gohar et al, 2000). These compounds were isolated from the leaves of T. distichum L.…”