Butea monospermais a large deciduous tree popularly known as Flame of the Forest, belongs to family Fabaceae. Almost all the parts of the plant namely root, leaves, fruit, stem bark, flowers, gum are used as medicine, food, fibre and for other miscellaneous purposes such as fish poison, dye, fodder, utensils, etc. The present study was undertaken for determine the presence of phytochemicals in the flowers and chlorophyll content of the leaf.  Flowers and leaf samples of Butea monosperma were collected from a total 12 trees of 4 different location of Jhalawar district. Methanol and ethanol were used as extract and preliminary phytochemical screening was carried out. The results of the present study showed that flowers of Butea monosperma indicate the presence of phenol, alkaloid, flavonoid, anthocyanin, xanthophyll, saponins, β-carotene, lycopene, total carotenoid in the methanol extract whereas the flowers subjected to extract with ethanol indicate the presence of phenol, alkaloid, flavonoid, xanthophyll, saponins, β-carotene, lycopene and total carotenoid. Chlorophyll analysis showed that leaf of Butea monosperma had chlorophyll-a (1.91±0.02), chlorophyll- b (1.26±0.03), and total chlorophyll (3.18±0.03). The presence of phytochemical in the flower might find application for medicinal purpose and presence of chlorophyll pigment suggest the photosynthetic efficacy of plant.

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