B107 



MYRTLE BOXLEAF 



Pachi'stima myrsini'tes 



Flowers greenish or reddish, small, 

 odorless, few, in nearly stalkless clus- 

 ters (cymes) in the leaf axils 



(Inter flower parts (sepals) 4, broad, 

 persistent 



Petals 4, attached to under edge of 

 disk covering seed-producing organ 

 (ovary) and alternating with the 4 

 stamens 



Seed pod (capsule) whitish, egg- 

 shaped, small (about '( in. long), 

 leathery, opening by 2 valves, 2-cclled, 

 1- or 2-seeded 



Leaves opposite, evergreen, short- 

 stalked, egg-shaped to spatula-shaped, 

 about >2 to l)j in. long, finely saw- 

 toothed above the middle, with rolled- 

 under margins 



Sterns woody, spreading or often pros- 

 trate, tip to 3 ft. long, usually nuich- 

 bnmched; branchlets reddish or brown- 

 ish, usually 4-ridged 



