Small glabrous tree, the leaves apically crowded or scattered on the flowering branchlets; petioles stout, 5-10 mm long; leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic, slightly narrowed to acute base, shortly and subacutely cuspidate, 1.5-2 dm long, 5-8 cm wide, the 5-7 slender lateral nerves and laxly reticulate veins somewhat conspicuous only beneath; bracts caducous; pedicels 1 cm long; calyx 1.5-2 cm long, the ovate teeth obtuse or mucronulate; corolla tube 3.5-4 cm long, the limb 3-5 cm across, the lobes subrotund.

Abortifacient, alterative, anesthetic, antiinflammatory, antipyretic, aphrodisiac, diaphoretic, diuretic, emmenagogue, hypertensive, laxative, narcotic.

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Used to treat arthrosis, constipation, dermatosis, eczema, fever, impotence, low blood pressure, rheumatism, scrofula, snakebite, syphilis.