Five new withanolides, designated as 15-oxo-nicaphysalin B, 6 β ,7 α -dihydroxynicandrenone 10, 24 α ,25 β -dihydroxy-nicandrenone-2 and a mixture of the epimers 17-(1 α /1 β -methylpropanone)- nicandrenone, in addition to six known others, were isolated from the leaf acetone extract from Nicandra physalodes . The complete structures of the five new withanolides, particularly their relative stereochemistries, w...