Abstract The whole plant of Swertia hookeri, collected at flowering has been shown to contain two tri-and nine tetraoxygenated free, glucosyloxy, and stearyl ester xanthones and one flavonol stearyl ester. Among these, three are previously unreported in nature and one was known previously only as a synthetic compound. The xanthones are based on 1, 3, 5,-, 1, 3, 5, 8-and 1, 3, 7, 8-oxygenated systems with the middle oxygenation pattern ...
