Distribution and Habitat: Found throughout India.

Botany: A moderate-sized weak tree generally with hollow internodes, hispid parts, rough grey bark and with out aerial root

• Leaves: Opposite, 10-30 cm long, surfaces scabrid, pubescent, 3-5 ribbed, secondary nerves regular and straight
• Fruit: Receptacles fascicled on the stem or leafless branchlets obovoid or turbinate, hispid, yellow when ripe.

Properties: Emetic, laxative, tonic, galactogenic, purgative, and emetic.

Chemical constituents: Leaves contain hispidin, oleanolic acid, bergaptine, β-amyrine, and β-sitosterol. Stem and leaves contain norisoprenoid ficustriol, 6-O-methyltylophorinidine and 2-demethoxytylophorine,  biphenylhexahydroindolizine hispidine. Bark contains lupeol acetate, β-amyrine acetate, β-sitosterol and acetates of n-triacontanol, β-amyrin and gluanol.  Fruit contains linalool, linalool oxide, terpeneol, and 2,6-dimethyl-1,7-octadiene-3,6-diol. 

Uses: It is used in ulcers, leucoderma, psoriasis, jaundice, inflammations, and intermittent fevers     

Propagation: It can be propagated by seeds.