A small, much-branched evergeen tree or shrub. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, oblong, elliptic or ovate-oblong, 3-6 in. long, coriaceous, glaucous; flowers in large corymbose terminal cymes, small, numerous, white or pinkish, fragrant; berries black, globose, 0.25 inch in diam., somewhat didymous; seeds plano-convex.

Lowers blood pressure, alleviates spasms and antiviral (50% EtOH aerial part extract).

Ixoral and beta-sitosterol (leaf); rutin and kaempferol-3-rutinoside (flower and leaf); from 50% EtOH extract of aerial part.

For bites by poisonous snakes, in dysuria and blood pressure (plant); for relieving whooping cough (flowers); for anaemia and general debility (bark decoction)

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.