Saltwood

Neea buxifolia (Hook, f.) Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 633. 1896
Eggersia buxifolia Hook, f. in Hook. Ic. 1'5: 1. 1883.
Shrub or small tree, 3-8 meters high, the branchlets virgate, slender, grayish, densely leafy, the younger ones f errugino-puberulent ; leaf-blades oblong, oblong-ovate, oblongelliptic, or oblanceolate, 9-24 mm. long, 4-9 mm. wide, broadly rounded or obtuse at the apex, sessile or narrowed at the base to a stout petiole 1-2 mm. long, glabrous, deep-green, rigidly coriaceous, the margins often revolute, the lateral veins obsolete; peduncles 4-5 mm. long, slender, rufo-puberulent; bractlets 1 mm. long, puberulent; staminate perianth ovoid or suburceolate, 3.5 mm. long, ferrugino-puberulent or glabrate, obtusely 5-dentate; stamens 5-8, 1.5-3 mm. long; pistillate perianth subtubular, 3 mm. long, sparsely puberulent, slightly contracted in the throat, 5-dentate, the teeth unequal, ovate-deltoid; fruit not known.
Type locality: On Flag Hill, St. Thomas, at an altitude of 320 meters. Distribution: On rocky hillsides, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Neea buxifolia, the tropical boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the saltwood genus Neea (family Nyctaginaceae), native to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It is used in bonsai.