Abstract:This present work is to study the chemical constituents of Swertia angustifolia. The whole plants of air-dried Swertia angustifolia was extracted with 90% EtOH. The water extract was suspended in H2O and extracted with petroleum ether, EtOAc and n-BuOH, successively. The compounds were isolated and purified by column chromatography from the EtOAc fraction, and identified based on spectral analyses(MS,1H-NMR, 13C-NMR). Fourteen compounds were isolated and characterized as 1, 8-dihydroxy-3, 7-dimethoxyxanthone(1), 1, 8-dihydroxy-3, 5, 7-trimethoxyxanthone(2), 7-hydroxy-3, 8-dimethoxyxanthone-1-O-β-D-glucopyranoside(3), 8-O-[β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1-6) -β-D-glucopyranosyl]-1, 7-dihydroxy-3-methoxyxanthone(4),(+)-syringaresinol(5), ferulic acid(6), trans-coniferyl aldehyde(7), sinapaldehyde(8), trans-coniferyl alcohol(9), 3, 4-dihydroxybenzoic acid(10), 2-hydroxybenzoic acid(11), isophthalic acid(12), 2-furoic acid(13),and 2-methyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone(14). Compounds 2-14 were obtained from this plant for the first time.