Micrechites.} xci. apocynace.e. 3^9 
(4) M. tenuifolia Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 79, p. 96. 
M. polyantha Hook. fil. F.B.I. iii. 671 [not of Miquel). 
Slender climber. Leaves nearly membranous, broad elliptic 
lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, blunt, base sub-acute; nerves 
very fine, parallel; 2 in. long, i’5 in. wide; petioles slender, *3 in. 
long. Cymes small, 1 in. long or under, axillary or by fall or sup¬ 
pression of leaves in short-branched panicles, 4 to 6 in. long, 
terminal, puberulous. Bracts ovate acute, persistent. Calyx- 
lobes rounded ovate, puberulous. Corolla glabrous, *05 in. long, 
tube cylindric, lobes short, oblong linear bent to one side, entire. 
Hab. In forests. Malacca (Maingay). Selangor, Ginting Bidai; 
Kwala Lumpur. 
This is distinguished from M. polyantha Miq. by the flowers smaller, 
corolla-lobes entire, calyx-lobes much less hairy, leaves smaller and thinner. 
Order XCIL ASCLEPIADACE^E. 
Slender climbing or twining shrubs, rarely herbs or erect shrubs, 
usually laticiferous. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled, thin or 
fleshy. Flowers regular, bisexual, medium or small, yellow or 
pink or purple, seldom white, in cymes umbellate or panicled or 
racemes, axillary, or from between petioles, or terminal. Calyx 
inferior, 5-lobed, usually with glandular scales inside. Corolla 
gamopetalous, 5-lobed, tube short (except Ceropegia), with 5 
coronal-processes. Stamens 5 > inserted at corolla base, free or 
usually connate into a column, enclosing the ovary. Anthers 
2-celled, free or united to the style-tip, with membranous or fleshy 
terminal appendages, sometimes connate, edges of anther or basal 
prolongations spreading outwards (anther-wings). Pollen granular, 
loose in a spathulate appendicle (Peripldcece) or in waxy masses 
(pollinia), attached to horny pollen-carriers either directly or by 
club-shaped caudicles, 2 to each anther, rarely 4 - Ovary superior, 
of 2 carpels free below; styles dilate above into a 5 _ 3- n gled disk, 
top flat or with a conic process. Follicles 2 or 1 by suppres¬ 
sion, divaricate. Seeds flat, usually winged with a silky plume at 
the top (except the tidal river Finlay soma and Sarcolobus). Species 
nearly 2000. Tropics and sub-tropics, few in temperate regions. 
(King and Gamble, Journ. ^ 4 s. Soc. Beng. lxxiv. 5 ° 5 -) 
i. Perifloceje. Pollen granular, loosely contained in a spathulate 
appendicle. 
No corona processes; climbers. 
Anther appendages erect, incurved at tip 
Anther appendages erect, bearded not incurved 
Anther appendages short, incurved over style; 
shrublets erect . 
Corona processes 5, short, thick 
Corona processes filiform. 
Fl.M.P., 2. 
1. Phyllanthera 
2. Pentanura 
3. Gongylosperma 
4. Hemidesmus 
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