Whole plant and leaves. It is a slender, herbaceous creeper.
Stems are long, prostate, filiform, often reddish and with long internodes, rooting at nodes.
Leaves are long-petioled, 1.3 to 6.3 cm in diameter,several from rootstock and 1 to 3 cm from each node of stem. They are orbicular,reniform,rather broader than long, glabrous on both sides and with numerous slender nerves from a deeply cordate base. The glycosides,brahmoside and brahminoside have been isolated with their genin brahmic acid. It has been shown that,depending on the habitat,the saponins can be of two types,the more common one containing asiaticoside and madecassoside and the less common one showing the additional presence of arabinose in the saponins thus forming brahmoside and brahminoside. Alcoholic extract prolonged the hypnotic effect of sodium phenobarbitone in mice and rats.