Identifying Mesechites sp. on Hispaniola
Both Powo and Flora of the West Indies (available from https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/WestIndies/catalog.htm ) agree that there just two species of Mesechites on Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic): Mesechites angustifolius and Mesechites repens.
Both species have been included in the book "On the Apocynaceae of South America" (1878) by John Miers on pages 229 and 230 r...