A straggling shrub, lax or ascendant, with slender branches up to 20 m long, glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate, elliptical-lanceolate, 4-8 cm x 2-5 cm, with a round to obtuse base, apex acuminate, 3-veined, petiole 3-12 mm long, glabrous, articulate. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal cyme with up to 9 flowers; flowers with a calyx tube 3 mm long, glabrous, calyx lobes 9, linear, up to 9 mm long, corolla tube 16-18 mm long, with 9 oblong and subobtuse lobes, 15 mm x 3-4 mm, with 3 veins, white, fragrant, anthers 5 mm long, not exserted, style short. Fruit a subglobose 1-seeded berry, 7-8 mm in diameter.

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory (branches and leaves)

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation
Indian herbs exporters (IHE)

An infusion of the leaves is administered to women after childbirth. The dried young shoots are used in the treatment of lymphadenopathy, metritis, galactophoritis, leucorrhoea, rheumatism, ostalgia, impetigo, dysmenorrhoea and haematometra. A decoction of the fresh leaves is used to wash wounds and against skin problems; a poultice is used to treat ulcers, abscesses and mastitis. An extract of the pounded root is used to treat quotidian fever.