Distribution and Habitat: Found throughout India.

Botany:    A large shrub with numerous tough branches, the young ones green, glabrous.

• Leaves: Glabrous, very large, much divided, leaflets oblong or elliptic oblong, chartaceous, coarsely and irregularly serrate, dark brown when dry, petiole dilated at the base in to sheathing stipules.
• Flowers: White in large branched corymbose cymes.
• Fruits: Black, purple, depressed globular berries

properties: antifungal , cytotoxic, antidiabetic 

Uses: It is useful inhyperdipsia, ulcers, colic and skin diseases. Leaves are used in joint pains 

Propagation: By seeds