Abstract
Abutilon indicum, dried and powdered aerial parts, was extracted with petroleum ether.
The petroleum ether extract, Fraction A, was saponified. The unsaponifiable matter
was found to contain n-alkane mixture (C22–C34, an alkanol fraction and β–sitosterol. The marc was extracted with alcohol 50 % and
the extract fractionated into Fractions B, C and D. The residual plant material was
extracted with water and the extract fractionated into Fractions E and F. In Fraction
B, vanillic, p–coumaric, p-hydroxybenzoic, caffeic and fumaric acids, and in Fraction
C, p–β–D–glucosyloxybenzoic acid and gluco-vanilloyl glucose were isolated and identified.
In fractions D and F, fructose, galactose, glucose, leucine, histidine, threonine,
serine, glutamic acid and aspartic acid were identified by co–chromatography. In Fraction
E,' a mucilage, the acid hydrolysate showed galactose and galacturonic acid.
