Botany
Lakmit is a hairy, woody climber with slender stems. Leaves are rounded, 5 to 15 cm wide, palmately 5-lobed, and heart-shaped at the base. Sepals are hairy, ovate, 10 to 15 mm in length, and longer in the fruit. Corolla is yellow, bell-shaped, and 3.5 to 4 cm long. Capsule is rounded and 10 to 15 cm in diameter. Seeds are dark brown, smooth, about 5 mm in diameter.

Distribution
- Found in the Laguna Province in Luzon; and in Palawan, Balabac, Semirara, and Negros, in open grasslands by deserted dwellings, and in thickets at low altitudes.
- Also occurs in southeastern Asia and Malaya.

Constituents
- Leaves yield a glycoside, which on hydrolysis yields hydrocyanic acid and benzaldehyde.

Properties
- Hairs on the leaves are irritating.
- Juice considered cooling.

Parts used
Plant juice.

Uses
Edibility
- Juice considered cooling and is given with milk and sugar.
- Immature, unripe fruits are chewed.
Folkloric
- Infusion is drunk for high fevers.
- Juice used for poulticing soreness and inflammation.
- In India, used for strangury and urethral discharges. In Konkan, juice given with milk and sugar for fevers.
- In Peninsular Malaysia, infusion is drunk for high fever
- In Cambodia, infusion of stem used internally and externally for malaria and small pox.

Availability
Wild-crafted.