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Restoring angiogenesis is not only essential for vessel formation, but also crucial for osteogenesis. Poly (L-lactic acid) (PLLA) is commonly used in the bone tissue engineering field. Panax notoginseng saponins (PNS) and osteopractic total flavone (OTF) promote angiogenesis and osteogenesis, respectively. We designed a sequentially releasing PLLA scaffold including PLLA loaded with OTF (inner layer) and PLLA loaded with PNS (outer layer). We assessed the osteogenic effect of angiogenesis in this scaffold by comparing it with the one-layered scaffold (PLLA embedded with OTF and PNS) in vivo. Results from the micro-CT showed that the data of bone mineral density (BMD), bone volume (BV), and percent bone volume (BV\/TV) in the PO-PP group were significantly higher than those in the POP group (p &lt; 0.01). Histological analyses show that the PO-PP scaffold exhibits better angiogenic and osteogenic effects compared with the one-layered scaffold. These might result from the different structures between them, where the sequential release of a bi-layer scaffold achieves the osteogenic effect of vascularization by initially releasing PNS in the outer layer. We further explored the possible mechanism by an immunohistochemistry analysis and an immunofluorescence assay. The results showed that the protein expressions of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1(CD31) in the PO-PP scaffold were significantly higher than those in the POP scaffold (p &lt; 0.01); the protein expressions of osteocalcin (OCN), osteopontin (OPN), and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in the PO-PP scaffold were significantly higher than those in the POP scaffold (p &lt; 0.05). 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