PACHYSTIMA (from pachys, thick, and stigma; in allusion to the stout form of that organ). SYN. Oreophila. ORD. Celastrineae. A genus of small, slightly branched, highly glabrous, hardy, evergreen shrubs, requiring culture similar to Myginda (which see). PACHYSTIMA Canbyi (Canby's). fl. reddish, small; petals oblong-obovate; style very short; pedicel filiform, elongated. Summer. l. oblong-linear, slightly denticulate. Stems surculosely creeping. Mountains of Virginia. A pretty species. PACHYSTIMA Myrsinites (Myrsine-like). fl. greenish, axillary, solitary or fascicled; calyx with a short tube and four rounded lobes; petals four, rounded, spreading; stamens four, inserted below the disk. June. l. opposite, very shortly petiolate, small, coriaceous, serrated or entire; stipules minute, deciduous. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Mountains of North-west America, 1818. SYN. Myginda myrtifolia (H. F. B. A. i. 41).