One new steriod, disformone, and one new triterpenoid, dischidiol, tog
ether with salicylic acid, friedelin, friedelinol, beta-amyrin acetate
, glutinone. taraxerol, kaempferol, quercetin, isorhamnetin and sitost
eryl-3-O-beta-glucopyranoside were isolated from the whole herb of Dis
ehidia formosana. The structures of the two new compounds, disformone
and dischidiol (which has a novel triterpene skeleton) were elucidated
by spectroscopic methods and X-ray analysis.