Fig. 6.

Cucurbitacins from the balsaminoside set (10–13) and balsaminagenin set (14–16) isolated from M. balsamina aerial parts (Ramalhete et al. 2009a, b, 2011a). Compounds 13 and 16 were firstly isolated from M. charantia roots and stems, respectively (Chang et al. 2008; Chen et al. 2008)