Codariocalyx motorius (Houtt.)H.Ohashi

Habit: Undershrub

A semi-herbaceous and somewhat variable undershrub, usually 4-5 ft hig; stems terete, indistinctly striate, green, glabrous, usually unbranch. Leaves normally 3 foliate; petiole 0.5-1.5 in. long; stipules 0.3-0.6 in. long, subulate with a broad base, erect, striate. Terminal leafets 1.5-4 by 0.3-1.5 in., oblong or oblong lanceolate, obtuse at both ends, quite entire, rathermembranous, almostglabrous and often with irrigular. glaucous blotches above, glaucous and more or less densely adpressed-pubescent beneath; main lateral nerves 7-10 on either half, oblique, arched, very slender. Lateral leaflets when present 0.25-0.7 by 0.05 -0.12 in., rotating by jerks underatmospheric stimules; petiolules 0.06-0.15 in. lng, slender stipeles about the same length, very slender. racemes axillaryand terminal, the lateral often branced, 26 in. long; pedicels 0.2-0.3 in. long, finely downy; bracts about 0.25 in., caducous, ovate-cuspidate, concealing the flower buds. calyx 0.1 in. long, campanulate; Corolla 0.25 -0.4 in. long, dull purple. Stamens diadelphous. Pod 1-1.7 by 0.2 in., falcate, sub-glabrous or glabrescent.

Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Nilgiri, Tirunelveli, Virudhunagar

Assam (Brahmaputra valley), Khasi, Jaintia and Garo hills.