Mesechites Müll.Arg.

Lianas, sometimes ? herbaceous, lacticiferous. Leaves opposite, bearing 1-4 glands at the base of the midrib, pinnately-nerved; petioles somewhat perfoliate, mostly glandular in the axils. Inflorescences racemose, bostrychoid, axillary and alternate. Flowers mostly medium-sized; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes equal to sub-equal, bearing several alternate or irregularly placed squamellae within; corolla salverform, without appendages, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes dextrorsely convolute; stamens 5, included, the anthers connivent and agglutinated to the stigma, with an enlarged connective characterized by a pedestal-like projection; gynoecium 2-carpellate, apocarpous, the ovary superior, the ovules numerous, the nectaries 5,