Distribution and habitat: Found throughout India

Botany: A glabrous, evergreen shrub 1.8-2.4 m in height with silvery grey bark and milky latex. 

• Leaves : Simple, opposite, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, smooth, glossy green, acuminate, margins wavy.
• Flowers: White, sweetly fragrant in 1-8 flowered cymes at the bifurcations of the branches, lobes of corolla overlapping to right in the bud.
•  Fruits : Follicles 2.5-7.5 cm long, ribbed and curved, orange or bright red within, narrowed into a slender curved beak.
• Seeds : Dull brown, minutely pitted, irregular, enclosed in a red puply aril.

Properties:  The roots are bitter, acrid, thermogenic, anodyne, astringent, vermifuge, and tonic. 

Chemical constituents: Coronaridine, vocangine

Uses: 

• Root is used in odontalgia, opacity of the cornea, paralysis, melalgia.
• Flowers used in burning sensation, ophthalmitis, dermatopathy.
• Latex used in wounds

Propagation: Seeds and stem cuttings