Saraca asoca (Roxb.) De Wilde. is an endangered medicinal tree that has immense medicinal importance. Six accessions of S. asoca were analyzed for phytochemicals to identify the accessions with the highest content of medicinal compou nds and to characterize two pharmaceutically important compounds. The chloroform and ethanol extracts of bark and the ethanol a nd chloroform extracts of flowers of the accessions were qualitatively tested for secondary metabolites. Total phenolics and flavonoids were also estimated to select the accessions with the highest content, which was further investigated by a sensitive and reliable high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the pharmacologically important quercetin and catechin. The accession, Sa-O, identified based on the results of phytochemical analysis incidentally is the fifty-year-old ornamental tree on

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Dendrophthoe falcata is also known as "Vanda" in the Indian Ayurvedic system of Medicine. Dendrophthoe falcata (L.f) Ettingish is a perinneal climbing woody parasitic plant. It is indigenous to tropical regions especially in India,

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