Distribution and habitat: Throughout India in dry localities

Botany: A straggling scandent shrub with softly villous young parts. 

• Leaves: Simple, alternate, ovate- oblong, obtuse, apiculate, subcordate or truncate at the base, softly villous on both surfaces. Petioles densely villous.
• Flower: Male flowers small, in axillary cymose panicles, pedicels slender, female flowers 2-3 together in axillary clusters, petals thick and fleshy, divide at the apex into 2 triangular lobes, claw hairy.  Ovaries 3 smooth.
• Fruits: Transversely rugose, purplish black drupes, size of a small pea.

Properties: Cardio tonic, anticonvulsant 

Chemical constituent: Roots show presence of D-trilobene and DL-coclaurine; stem and root contain alkaloids, glucosides and sterols.

Uses: It is used in poisonous bites, spermatorrhoea, tubercular glands, and strangury. Mucilaginous, eczema, impetigo, neuralgia Eczema, hypertension, and bronchitis

Propagation:  Stem cuttings.