A scrambling undershrub, 60 cm or more tall, stellately pubescent. Prickles up to 5 mm long, conical, curved. Leaves 10-25 x 7-20 mm, orbicular-oblong to subcordate. Petiole as long as or shorter than lamina. Flowers 1-2(-3) axillary, lateral or terminal. Pedicel 10-30 cm long, slender, stellate-pubescent. Calyx cam¬panulate; lobes 2-3(-5) mm long, acute or obtuse. Corolla 5-7 mm long, stellate-pubescent on the outside, throat purple; lobes acute or obtuse. Filaments less than 1 mm long. Style and ovary glabrous. Berry 5-7 mm broad, yellow-red. Seeds c. 2.6 mm broad, subreniform, verrucate.

Fl. Per.: March-April.

Type: Described from Arabia.

Distribution: N. Africa, Arabia, Pakistan & India.

A xerophytic scrambler with slender branches. found in rocky places up to 1000 m. Not so common in the Punjab. The juices of the crushed leaves and fruit is medicinal.