Hyacinthaceae family

Hyacinthus orientalis (Hyacinthaceae) is a plant native to North Africa and Eurasia, and commonly known as hyacinth. A search for polyhydroxylated alkaloids in species of the Hyacinthaceae family by GC-MS led to isolation and characterization of eleven... 

Polyhydroxylated pyrrolizidine alkaloids with a hydroxymethyl substituent at C-3 have been thought to be of very restricted natural occurrence. The alexines and australines have been reported in only two small genera of the Leguminosae (Castanospermum and Alexa). However, a number of such pyrrolizidine alkaloids were found from a quite different family, Hyacinthaceae. In 1999, new polyhydroxylated pyrrolizidines different from... 

The cardiac glycosides have up to now been isolated from a limited number of plant families Scrophuhridceae (Digitalis lanata), Apocynaceae (Strophanthus gratus, Nerium oleander), Hyacinthaceae (Urginea mar-itima), Convallariaceae (Convallaria majalis), and Ranunculaceae (Adonis vernalis). 

SQUILL, Scillae bulbus The drug consists of the dried sliced bulbs of Drimia maritime (L.) Steam syn. Ur inea, maritima, (L.) Bake, family Hyacinthaceae, from which the membranous outer scales have been removed (fig. 11). 

Other polyhydroxylated pyrrolizidines are the hyacinthacines, named after their occurrence in members of the plant family Hyacinthaceae (Uyacinthoides non-scripta and Scilla campanulata) The stereochemical disposition of substituents around the pyrrolizidine core was determined by nOe effects in the NMR spectra, but the... 

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