It has been reported previously that 3.5-3.8% of total alkaloids and 0.03% of reserpine accumulate in the roots of Rauwolfia littoralis Pierre ex Pitard (R. u. indochinensis M. Pichon, R. u. macrocarpa Standl) [1, 2]. Continuing a chemical study of this plant, we have investigated the bark of the roots and have isolated six alkaloids. This is the first time that any of these alkaloids have been isolated from R. littoralis. Continuing a systematic study of plants of the genus Haplophyllum [1], we have subjected to chemical investigation the leaves of H. ramosissimum Vved., gathered by one of us in the budding and incipient flowering phase in the Ustyurt desert near Kosbulak. The dry comminuted raw material (680 g) was extracted with methanol. The total alkaloids (0.35 g; 0.05% of the weight of the dry leaves) were obtained from the evaporated extract in the usual way [2], and their chromatography on silica gel gave the alkaloids evoxine (210 mg), mp 154-155°C (methanol), methylevoxine (28 mg), mp 122-123°C (ether), and acetylevoxine (32 mg), mp 161-162°C (acetone), and also the coumarins scoparone (30 mg), mp 141-142°C (acetone) and obtusinin (20 mg), mp 140-141°C (acetone) [3]. This is the first time that obtusinin has been isolated from this plant. By chromatography on silica gel, the neutral fraction of the methanolic extract yielded the coumarins scoparone (52 mg), obtusinin (30 mg), and scopoletin (17 mg), mp 199-200°C (acetone), and also cinnamide (10 mg), mp 144-155°C, shown to be identical in its spectral characteristics with a sample isolated from Reseda luteola [4]. This is the first time that cinnamide has been isolated from a plant of the family Rutaceae.