This is a climbing shrub. Leaves are broad, palmately 3 to 7 lobed, with acuminate apex and cordate base and denticulate margins; petioles 3.0 to 8.0 cm long. Flowers are large, white and about 3.5 to 7.0 cm across in racemes. Calyx tube is funnel-shaped; lobes irregularly lacinate. Corolla is 4.5 to 5.0 cm across and fimbriate. The berries are globose and red when ripe. Seeds are numerous and embedded in blackish-green pulp.

In diarrhoea, fever, pneumonia, rheumatism and vomiting (roots); used in dysentery (seeds); applied externally on burns (leaf paste).

Sharma PV. Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.