English: Herba sarcandrae; Glabrous sarcandra herb; Nine-knotted flower; Bone-knitted lotus.
Content: aromatic oils.
Region: Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Cambodia, Malaysia, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, China.
Botany: 400 to 1500 meters, wet slopes and valleys of the forest shade; leaves elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, ± 10 cm, leathery, margin sharply coarsely-serrate; stamen baculate to terete; thecae shorter than connective; stigma subcapitate; fruit globose or ovoid.