Distribution and habitat: In Western ghats, South Canera and Mysore to Travancore.

Botany: Large, more or less scandent, evergreen shrub; branches straight or flexuous, usually tomentose; 

• Leaves: Alternate, petioles stout, tomentose, lamina elliptic, undulate or repand, glabrous or pendulous or puberulous above or subcoriaceous;
• Flowers: Monoecious, green, often in long panicled spikes, often subtended by long stipular bracts, male flowers sessile, female flowers pedicelled
• Fruits: Bluish black, smooth.

Properties: Hypotensive

Chemical constituents: Root-Taraxerone, :Bark-β-sitosterol, friedelin.

Uses: It is used in pleurisy, asthma, cough, fever, as gargle for sores in mouth, jaundice and anaemia due to pregnancy.