Cestrum nocturnum

Xylosyl(l 2)[rhamnosyl(l 6)glucoside] Cestrum nocturnum leaves Solanaceae 277... 

Overland, L. (1960). Endogenous rhythm in opening and odor of flowers of Cestrum nocturnum. American Journal of Botany 47 378-382. 

Mimaki Y, Watanabe K, Ando Y, Sakuma C, Sashida Y, Furuya S, Sakagami H (2001) Flavonol Glycosides and Steroidal Saponins from the Leaves of Cestrum nocturnum and Their Cytotoxicity. J Nat Prod 64 17... 

Finally, a novel flavonol glycoside, kaempferol 7-methylether 3-0-[6-0-sinapoyl-glucosyl 1 -> 2 rhamnosyl 1 6]-glucoside, isolated from the leaves of Cestrum nocturnum L., should be mentioned as an example for an HCA-acylated flavonol glycoside (Mimaki et al. 2001). 

Cestroideae. Nomicotine (major alkaloid), nicotine, and anabasine were detected in Salpiglossis sinuata (Salpiglossis clade) (Schroter 1958, 1963). The same alkaloids were found as constituents of Streptosolen jamesonii (BrowaUieae clade) (Schroter 1963). Nicotine and its nor congener were isolated also from the leaves of Cestrum diurnum and C. nocturnum (Cestreae clade), in addition cotinine and myosmine from the latter species only. This was the first report on the occurrence of cotinine and myosmine outside of the genus Nicotiana. However, all these alkaloids were present in such small concentrations that the toxicity attributed to both Cestrum species should be based on different constituents (steroidal saponins, see Sect. 7.7) (Halim et al. 1971). 

Cestrum. a-Famesene, an isomer of P-famesene (Fig. 7.4), turned out to be one of the major components of VOCs from fresh flowers of C. nocturnum L. beside the monoterpenoid linalool and benzenoids/phenylpropanoids (Li et al. 1988). 

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