A shrub up to 12 ft. high. Bark shining grey, peeling off in papery flakes; leaves large, elliptic-lanceolate, variable, giving a foetid odour when crushed; flowers blue or white, fragrant, in terminal branched panicles; capsules ellipsoid.

For wounds, in puerperal fever; in diarrhoea, courbature (root)

Pataskar et al, Bull Med-Ethno-Bot Res, 1990, 11, 103.