Distribution and Habitat:  Through out India especially along sandy shores

Uses: Skin diseases, boils, swellings, carbuncle, cramp, burning sensation

Botany: An extensively trailing sand binding perennial herb with long tap roots and a thick brown bark. 

• Leaves: Deeply 2 lobed, 3.8-5.7 x 5-7.5 cm, alternate, glabrous, parallel veined. Petioles 2.5-9 cm long, glabrous.
• Flowers: Large, purple red, usually solitary; peduncles erect, 2.5-11.5 cm long, pedicels 1.6-4.5 cm long, stout, corolla 3.8-5 cm long, tubular-infundibuliform, brilliant rose-purple with a deeper colour in the tube, glabrous.
• Fruits: Ovoid, glabrous capsules, seeds-4, dark brown tomentose.

Propagation: By seeds