The plant can be pruned and grown as a hedge. Latex obtained from the stems can be used to make rubber. It is equal in quality to the latex obtained from the rubber tree, Hevea sp.

കറ റബറുണ്ടാക്കാൻ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Evergreen suberect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, subcoriaceous, elliptic, obtuse at apex, subacute at base. Flowers whitish, tinged with light purple, showy, in few-flowered, terminal, dichotomous cymes. Calyx divided nearly to base, ovate, acute at apex, margins recurved, glabrous within near base, otherwise puberulent. Corolla, subcampanulate at throat; lobes obliquely-oblong, acute; anthers sagittate, adnate to the stigma, connective produced into acute processes. Ovary glabrous, ovules many; style short, stout, glabrous, the apex dome-shaped. Follicles divaricate, woody, 3-angled, glabrous; seeds ovate, glabrous.