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Spores not grouped in sori, but covering the entire back of the fertile frond 
Acrostichum 
Spores grouped in sori, not covering the back of the frond 
Fronds deeply parted, the segments entire Microsorium 
Fronds pinnate, the segments dentately or crenately lobed or parted 
Segments crenately lobed; sori reniform; forest fern with fronds up to 4 ft. long. . 
Nephrolepis 
Segments dentately parted; sori round; swamp fern with fronds usually less than 
2 ft. long Cyclosorus 
Group II. Flowering Plants 
A. Trees or shrubs with woody stems (See also B and C) 
Leaves minute, toothlike, borne at the joints of the needlelike, green, jointed stems which 
function as leaves; fruit a small woody cone Casuarina 
Not as above 
Leaves 8-12 ft. long, pinnate; trunk unbranched Cocos 
Leaves not as above; trunk usually branched 
Leaves 2-7 ft. long, spiny along the edges and along the midrib on the underside; 
fruit a head of green to orange woody drupes Pandanus 
Leaves and fruit not as above 
Leaves lobed, parted, or divided into leaflets 
Leaves lobed or parted, or subentire occasionally, but never divided into leaflets; 
sap milky 
Leaves palmately-pinnately divided; trunk often unbranched; fruit pearshaped, 
fleshy, orange. Carica 
Leaves pinnately lobed or parted, or occasionally subentire; fruit globose or 
elongate, green, of many carpels Artocarpus 
Leaves divided into leaflets 
Leaves ternate, i. e., divided into 3 leaflets 
Fruit red, globose, 14-14 in. diameter; flowers minute, greenish, borne in 
spikes Allophylus 
Fruit brownish or greenish, flecked with white, 4-10 in. long; flowers large, 
with white or creamy stalked petals Crataeva 
Leaves divided into more than 3 leaflets 
Flowers yellow and red; leaflets smooth, green Caesalpinia 
Flowers yellow; leaflets with white hairs Sophora 
Leaves simple, not at all divided or lobed, never compound 
Sap milky or yellowish, viscid 
Sap yellowish; secondary leaf- veins curving-parallel; fruit spherical, woody, 
1 in. diameter Calophyllum 
Sap milky-white; leaf-veins reticulate 
Flowers less than Vs in. long, hidden inside a globose, fruitlike organ 
Leaves unequal at base; veins raised below; leaves up to 12 in. long. .. . 
Ficus tinctoria 
Leaves subequal at base; veins not conspicuously raised below; leaves 
2-4 in. long Ficus ramentacea? 
Flowers larger than Vs in. long, borne externally, with evident petals, V4-IV2 
in. long 
