Chemical Investigation of Mollugo pentaphylla

Post-Graduate Department of Chemistry, Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur-812 007

Manuscript received 14 October 1982, revised 8 August 1983,accepted 15 September 1983

MOLLUGO pentaphylla, one of the three species of the genus Mollugo (fam. Molluginaceae) is an annual shrub and grows in paddy and maize fields during July-August. The other two species are Mollugo spergula (grows at the base of the eastern Himalayas¹) and Mollugo hirta (distributed in West Bengal² ).