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p-Anisaldehyde (1) and β-sitosterol were isolated from carbon tetrachloride and chloroform soluble portion of the methanol extract of stem bark of Averrhoa carambola. The structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic studies and by comparison with published data. Different partitionates of the methanol extract exhibited significant antimicrobial activities and varying degrees of cytotoxicity. Averrhoa carambola (Bengali name- Kamranga; Family, Oxalidaceae) is medium sized tree. It is planted in all over the Bangladesh.1 Fruits and its fruit juice are used as antioxidant, astringent, tonic also to treat diarrhoea, vomiting, dysentery, hepatic colic, bleeding piles, relieving thirst and febrile excitement. The leaves are antipruritic, antipyretic and anthelmintic and are also useful in scabies, fractured bones, and various types of poisoning, intermittent fevers and intestinal worms.2 Previous phytochemical investigation led to the isolation of

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