Distribution and Habitat: Throughout India in scrub forest and dry plains. 

Botany: A thorny subscandent shrub with spreading branches.

• Leaves: Simple, small, opposite with interpetiolar stipules and axillary spines
• Flowers: Yellowish white, 4-merous, small, in axillary cymes, corolla tube short
• Fruits: Oblong-ellipsoid or compressed drupes, yellow when ripe.                   

Properties: The roots and the leaves are astringent, thermogenic, diuretic, febrifuge, anthelmintic and constipating.

Uses: Useful in diarrhoea, strangury, fever, intestinal worms and general debility.

Propagation: Seeds