10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 6 Issue 1 2015 (January - March) The herbal market is flooded with substitutes and adulterants due to non-availability of the genuine drug and poor knowledge and difficulty in identifying the pure active principle. lessThan i greaterThan Toddalia asiatica lessThan /i greaterThan (Rutaceae) is a constituent of traditional systems of medicine used for treating a paradigm of diseases. The flowers were extracted with methanol, the filtered extract was concentrated to dryness and the residue subjected to GC-MS analysis. The results showed the presence of diverse bioactive compounds such as dihydroxyacetone, propylcarbamate, 4H- pyran-4-one, 2,3 - dihydro-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, Dichloropropylphospine,5-Ethyl-2,4-dimethyl isoxazolidine,oleic acid, 4,5- diamino-2-hydroxypyrimidine, cyclopentanone dimethylhydrazone, 4-mercaptophenol, 2,4-dihydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3(2H)-furan-3-one, Deferoxamine, 1,2,3-propanetriol,1-acetate, butanenitrile,2,3,-dioxo-dioxime,o,o-diacetyl, acetamide,N-butyl, 3-pentanol,2,3,4-trimethyl, 1,3-dioxolane,2-butyl-2-methyl, n-Hexadecanoic acid, Urea,N,N'-dibutyl- N,N'-dimethyl and Cis-13-Octadecenoic acid with varying chemical structures that are specific to floral tissues, this vouches for phytochemical potential of lessThan i greaterThan T lessThan /i greaterThan .a lessThan i greaterThan siatica lessThan /i greaterThan flowers and is indicative of their medicinal use. NARAYANAN RAVISANKAR, ABUBAKKER SIDDIQ,SOORIAMUTHU SEENI AND JERRINE JOSEPH Toddalia asiatica, traditional medicine, GC-MS 1246-1254