The petroleum ether extractive of the bark of Erythrina strictu was resolved into various non-nitrogenous fractions which consisted of n-alkanes, fatty esters, n-alkanols, alkyl ferulates, fatty acids, sitosterol and stigmasterol.The ethanol extractive yielded a coumarin entity, identified as 7-methoxy-& (15hydroxypentadecyl)-coumarin (1); two chloroform-soluble bases, erysovine (2) and erysodine (3); and a water-soluble base characterized as hypaphorine.Erythrina strictu Roxb. has been used in the indigenous system of medicine for various ailments (1). Continuing with our research program on the investigation of Indian Erylhrina species for alkaloidal and non-alkaloidal constituents (2-9), the bark of E. strictu has now been examined. This bark had not been studied previously. However, from the seeds Games et al. (10) have reported the occurrence of erythraline, erysodine, erythrinine, erysopine, 1 l-hydroxyerysodine and 1 1-hydroxyerysovine as determined by gc-ms studies.