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7. Casuarinaceae Casuarina equisetifolia L. - Leaves reduced to scales
forming a collar at joints of branchlets; male flowers at tip
of branchlets, female flowers at base of branchlets; fruit a
cone.
8. Chenopodiaceae -Flowers perfect, calyx 5, leaves entire or lobed
...........................................Chenopodium
leaves mealy.......C. sandwichmeum Moq.
deltoid
leaves mealy
lanceolate.........C. album L.
Flowers unisexual (monoecious or dioecious)
............................................Atriplex semibaccatus R. Br.
9. Combretaceae Terminalia catappa L. A small to large tree with branches
which are horizontal and arranged in tiers bearing large rosettes
of thick, shiny, blunt, short-stemmed leaves. 6-12" long; fruit
l-2" long, green to yellow; wood reddish.
10. Compositae (ld)
A. Herbs......B.
B. Flower heads with each floret rayed having a strap
shaped extension of the corolla); leaves alternate; stem
leafy, basal leaves, long stemmed, with a few deep lobes
...................Sonchus oleraceus L.
BB. Flower heads with outermost florets having rays, inner
florets tubular......C.
C. Leaves alternate, at least upper ones...D
D. Flower bracts overlapping, leaves white wooly
or hairy, narrow triangular, flowers yellow
or orange........Verbesina
DD. Flower bracts in one or two equal rows
flowers white........Erigeron
CC. Leaves opposite; plants prostrate; flower heads
solitary at branch tip, florets yellow; thick
leaves...............Lipochaeta integrifolia
(Nutt.) Gray
CCC. Plants erect; ray florets yellow...Syndrella nodiflora (I)
Gaert.