A. Epiphasic pigments

The upper brown hydrocarbon layer with thin-layer chromatography using five parts petroleum ether to one part methanol as solvent gave ten bands of pigments. Starting from the uppermost, these are referred to as follows: A yellow band (A) close to the front line; an orange band (A'); a yellow-pink band (A"); a light pink band (B); an intense violet-red band (B'); an orange band (C); a green band (D); page 3a pink band (E); a yellow band (E') and a greeny-yellow band (F).

Table 1 details the characteristics of these bands.