An erect shrub, 0.3B-2(B-4) m tall. Leaves oblong-elliptical to lanceolate, 8—25 cm x 2.5—7 cm, base cuneate, apex abruptly acuminate and obtuse, glabrous, petiole 1-B2.5(—6) cm long, stipules broadly triangular, slightly fused at the base, deeply 2-fid to shortly 2-lobed, becoming corky. Inflorescence corymbiform, crowded, 2.5-B6 cm long, peduncle short; flowers subsessile, white, pink or violet, base yellow, calyx 1.5 mm long, glabrous, corolla tube variable, 4—9 mm long, variably curved, sparsely pubescent inside, lobes 2B6 mm long, stamens inserted in upper part of corolla. Drupe globose, 6—8 mm long, hardly ribbed. Seed semiglobose.

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Used for malaria, cough and after childbirth (decoction of the roots); applied as a poultice for headache, convulsions and herpes (crushed roots); used to make a lotion that is applied to cuts, wounds and ulcers, and also after childbirth (roots or leaves); used for fever (infusion of leaves).