Five new alkaloids, along with camptothecin 1 and 9-methoxycamptotheci
n 2, were isolated from a trunk bark extract of Nothapodytes foetida (
Wight) Sleumer (lcacinaceae). The structures were elucidated by spectr
oscopic means as mappicine and the 9-methoxymappicine glycosides (3-6)
and the di-p-coumaroylspermidine ester of a camptothecin-like compoun
d 7, which we have named foetidin I.