Distribution and Habitat: Found throughout Indian subcontinent in dry forest areas and in Sri lanka

Botany: A rambling scandent shrub with yellow tomentose twigs. Branchlets horizontal provided with a pair of strong circinate hooks. 

• Leaves:  Simple, alternate, elliptic, obovate glabrous and penninerved.
• Flowers: Yellow at the ends of the branchlets, pedicels short, clothed with soft yellow hairs, 2.5 - 3.7 cm in diameter. Sepals 7.5 mm long, acute, fulvous-pubescent. Petals many times longer than the sepals. Style longer than the stamens; stigmas capitate.
• Fruits: Globose fleshy drupes, seeds 2 or 3 compressed.            

Properties: Astrigent, anthelmintic, bitter, febrifuge and sweet.

Chemical constituents: It contains flvananoids, phenolics, terpenes, steroids etc. Phenolics are p-coumaric acid, gallic acid, catechol, caffeic acid and vanillin.

Uses:  Fevers, verminosis, and inflammations 

Propagation: Seeds.