It is a glabrous shrub about 1.5 to 3.0 m high with flutted hollow stems. Leaves are 3 to 4 nate or opposite, narrowly lanceolate and subentire. The flowers are white in terminal and elongate panicles. The bracts are linear or linear-lanceolate. Calyx is campanulate, cleft half way into 5 ovate segements. Corolla is glabrous and white and corolla-tube is drooping. The drupes are dark blue and about 1.25 cm long, which are seated on the reddish accrescent calyx. The seeds are oblong.

Anthelmintic, tonic and vermifuge (leaf); anti-inflammatory and inhibits lipid peroxidation of cell membranes (Kumar)

Triacetylhispidulin, hispidium, and scutellarein glucuronide (leaf).

Asthma, cough and scrofula (root bark); eliminating intestinal worms (leaf). Leaf juice mixed with butterfat is applied externally to herpetic eruptions and pemphigus. Its resin is employed in syphilitic rheumatism.

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