Vepris bilocularis Health Dictionary

(Wight & Arn.) Engl.

Synonym: Toddalia bilocularis Wight & Arn.

Family: Rutaceae.

Habitat: North Kanara, forests of Malabar, Annamalai and Travancore, up to 1,200 m.

Ayurvedic: Krishna-Agaru. (In South India V. bilocularis is used as Krishna-Agaru and Dysoxylum labricum Bedd. ex Hiern as Shveta-Agaru.)

Siddha/Tamil: Devadaram.

Action: Wood—extract in oil is used for rheumatic swellings and skin diseases. Root—used for biliousness.

Alkaloids from stem bark included kokusaginine, skimmianine, flindersi- amine, evoxanthine, N-methylacrido- ne derivatives, maculine and vepris- one. The leaves contain a triterpenoid, lupeol.