Several species of Schefflera (Araliaceae) are used as folk remedies for the treatment of pain, rheumatic arthritis, fracture, sprains, lumbago, and stomach ache in the southwest of China1 and in certain Asian coun- tries, such as Vietnam and India.2,3 Two species, S. octophylla and S. capitata, have been chemically inves- tigated to isolate a series of triterpenes, triterpene glycosides, and oligosaccharides.3-13 Schefflera bodi- nieri (Levi.) Rehd. root, which has not previously been investigated, was selected for the present study. The 70% EtOH extract showed strong binding to 5HT and GABA receptors in radioligand-receptor binding assays, then the bioassay-guided isolation resulted in obtaining four novel triterpene glycosides. This paper deals the structure elucidation of these compounds