A straggling, scandent shrub. Leaves ovate to triangular in shape, apiculate or truncate at the base, softly villous aw both the sides; glabrous; petioles 3 mm long. Flowers small at leaf joints, green petals; Male flowers in small axillary cymose panicles; pedicels slender; bracts minute; sepals oblongovate; petals membranous, emarginate, embracing the stamens. Female flowers in axillary clusters, rarely racemose. Fruits drupe, spherical, transversely rugose.

The root is used as a mild laxative, sudorific and antipyretic. Alleviates spasms, anticonvulsant, lowers blood pressure, sedative, slows heartbeat and cardiotonic (root and stem); diuretic (aerial part); reduces fever and expectorant (root).

Ginnol, beta-sitosterol and a monomethyl ether of insitol (plant); cyclopeptide alkanoids (stem).

Gonorrhea (leaf and root); eczema (leaf); as a refrigerant, gentle laxative, and as an alterative for treating chronic rheumatism and venereal diseases.

Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.