Distribution and Habitat: Found throughout India.

Botany: A large much branched shrub, twigs slender, glabrous and usually covered with numerous small lenticels. 

• Leaves: Ovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, regularly or irregularly serrate-dentate, thin, glabrous and shining above, main nerves 8-10 pairs; petiole 1.3- 2.5 cm long, glabrous or slightly hairy.
• Flowers: Very small, faintly fragrant, numerous, in compound, panicled, usually glabrous racemes, pedicels filiform, 1.25-2 mm long; bract 1 below the pedicel, narrowly ovate, acute, not ciliate. Calyx 1.5 mm long, divided rather more than ½ ways down. Corolla white, 2.5 mm long, marked with coloured lines, divided to the middle.
• Fruit: Berry globose, creamy white, about 3 mm diameter, covered almost to the apex by the persistent calyx and tipped with the short style. Seeds black. 

Properties: Anthelmintic

Uses: It is useful in syphilis.

Propagation: By seeds