A deciduous laticiferous shrub or small tree with pale brownish or greyish, rough  bark, peeling off in irregular flakes, opposite, sub-sessile, elliptic or ovate-oblong leaves, white flowers, in terminal corymbose cymes, divaricate, cylindric, often white-spotted follicles containing light brown seeds with brownish coma.

amoebic dysentery, diarrhoea, asthma, liver, spleen and stomach disorders,  internal bleeding, rheumatism, malaria, vomiting, worm infestations, leprosy, wounds, piles, urinary disorders, skin diseases, chronic bronchitis, boils, ulcers, dysentery, control excessive bleeding after delivery, body pain, skin diseases