An acidic polysaccharide from the seeds of Ocimum adscendens.

mucllagmous polysacchande-complex found m the seeds 0 adscendens contains an acldlc polysaccharade
which has been isolated It 1s composed of Dgalactose (N 20 %), D-galacturonc acid ( w 35 %) and L-rhamnose
(N 39 %) Methylatton analysts using GC and GC/MS, Smith degradation, lsolatlon of an acldlc ohgosaccharlde from
partial hydrolysates, and enzymlc hydrolysis usmg j-D-galactosldase indicated the polysaccharlde backbone to be --* 4)-
GalpA-( 1 + 2)-L-rhap-( 1 + Nearly two-thirds of the rhamnopyranosyl units are O-4 substituted by Dgalactopyranosyl
non-reducing end groups