Distribution and habitat: Dry places of Malabar and Travancore, Deccan and Coimbatore.

Botany: A very prickly small shrub; branches hairy. 

• Leaves:  broadly elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, hairy beneath, deciduously scabrid pubescent above; petioles hardly any. Bracteoles simple spines, usually long.
• Flowers: axillary sessile, two outer sepals large ovate subspinose, denticulate, softly hairy. Corolla purple.
• Fruit: Capsule four seeded.

Uses: Cough and inflammations.

Formulations: Saha cheradi kashayam

Propagation: Cuttings