Leaves : Ramal and cauline, simple, opposite decussate or whorled, petiolate, obovate, ovate or elliptic, entire, with axillary thorns and unicostate reticulate venation.
Inflorescence : Axillary or terminal racemes forming panicles.
Flowers :
Complete, bisexual, bracteates, bracts small at the base of the flowers, pedicellate, hypogynous, zygomorphic, pentamerous, bluish-white in colour.
Calyx made up of 5 sepals, gamosepalous, slightly tubular, persistent, valvate, small, teeth 5.
Corolla made up of 5 petals, gamopetalous, tubular with unequal lobes, three anterior lobes are larger than two posterior; quincuncial, corolla tube slightly curved, rotate, lilac or light-blue.
Gynoecium is tetracarpellary, syncarpous, superior, tetralocular, each locule with two ovules; axile placentation; style simple; stigma simple, bifid or 4 lobed.
Fruit : Drupe fleshy with enlarged calyx with four 2-chambered stones, orange.
Seeds : 8, obovate-oblong, smooth, glabrous.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : Throughout the year.
Significance :
Commonly cultivated in the gardens and used as a border or hedge plant.
Fruit juice is also known to be used against mosquitoes.
