Dysoxylum malabaricum Bedd. ex C.DC
- Family: Meliaceae
- Vernacular names: Akil, Purippa, Vellagil, അകിൽ, പൂരിപ്പ, വെള്ളഗിൽ (Malayalam), White cedar (English), Agaru, Svetagaru (Sanskrit), Purippa (Tamil)
- Distribution: Endemic to Southern Western Ghats
- Description: Trees, bark thick, greyish-yellow, rough, verrucose. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, fragrant. Fruit a capsule, pyriform, verrucose, bright yellow, with 4 longitudinal furrows; seeds 3-4, reddish-brown, bluntly trigonus.
- Habit: Tree
- Habitat: Evergreen forests
- Flowering & Fruiting: February-June
- Parts used: Heartwood
- Properties & Uses: Decoction of wood is used to treat rheumatism. Oil is used in ear and eye diseases. The decoction of the wood is applied externally to treat rheumatic pain.
- Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
- Traditional Uses:The decoction of the wood is applied externally to treat rheumatic pain.
- Conservation Status: Endangered.
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