Two piperidine alkaloids were obtained from an ethanolic extract of the leaves of Dialypetalum floribundum. Their structures were determined as N-methyl-2-(2-hydroxybutyl)-6-(2-hydroxypentyl)-piperidine and N-methyl-2,6-bis-(2-hydroxypentyl)-piperidine from spectroscopic data. Lobetyol and its 9-O-glucoside, lobetyolin, were also isolated. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.