English: Perennial twining herbs. Rootstock with fascicledfleshy

roots. Stem 3–4.5 m long, branched, glabrous, quite woody at base, soft upwards, 3 mm in diam. Lamina 4.6–20.5 × 1.7–6.0 cm, ovate-lanceolate-elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, pubescent above, along margins and beneath, deep green above, pale below; petioles 1.2–4.5 cm long, channeled above, sparsely pilose. Cymes umbellate, 4–8-flowered, extra-axillary; peduncles usually longer than pedicels, both hairy, 2.4–10.5 cm long, terete, hairy in one row; pedicels 1–7 cm long, glabroushairy. Corolla 4.5–7.5 cm long, outside minutely hairy in buds; tube 3.3–4.3 cm long, dilated at base, cylindrical at middle, funnel-shaped at throat, c. 2 cm across at throat, glabrous except for ring of hairs at the throat of dilated part, greenish-yellow blotched with purple at middle and throat outside, deep purple within, greyish-white vertical light windows present at dilated part within; lobes 2–4 cm long, deltoid in lower half, spathulate above, completely reflexed along margins. Corona bi-seriate; outer of 5-bifid lobes, hairy along margins and within; inner erect, connivent, linear-spathulate, glabrous. Follicles c.

Fig. 38. Ceropegia andamanica Sreek., Veenak. & Prashanth: a. Habit. 23 cm long, blunt at tips