A large, evergreen, shurb, 1.5-4 m tall. Leaves 10-20 cm long, oblanceolate to obovate, entire, acute to shortly acuminate, shortly stalked. Flowers 1.5-2 cm across, pink or pinkish-white, in axillary, corymbose racemes, shorter than the leaves. Corolla lobes spreading, broad, tube very short. Fruit 7-13 mm in diameter, depressed-globose, black with pink juice when ripe, tipped by style base, supported on persistent calyx.

Fl. Per.: March June.

Type: Described from India (probably Tellingas moist valley).

Distribution: A native of moist ravines and forests almost throughout India. Sometimes cultivated in gardens for its evergreen habit and showy pink flowers.

It closely resembles Ardisia humilis Vahl. which is a smaller shrub, and known from the coastal regions of India. (Vide Cooke, l.c. 146.)