A stout, laticiferous climber, with rusty brown, tomentose branchlets, broadly elliptic or ovate-orbicular, shortly acuminate leaves with cordate base, sweet scented, white few-flowers, in axillary or terminal cymes and subtetragonous, long follicles containing pale brown, flat, shortly beaked seeds bearing a long tuft of hair.

skin diseases, leprosy, scabies, syphilis, inflammation, constipation, worm infestations, hyperacidity, cardiac debility, diabetes, jaundice, cough, bronchitis, intermittent fevers, stomach disorders, chest diseases, purgative