Flora of Namonuito — STONE 
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Flowers borne singly or in panicles 
Flowers borne in panicles 
Leaves with white hairs; flowers borne in a scorpioid cyme. . 
Messerschmidia 
Leaves smooth green; flowers not borne in a scorpioid cyme 
Flowers less than in. long, bilabiate, bluish, borne in 
flat-topped corymbose panicles; stamens 4 Premna 
Flowers more than in. long, white, regular, borne in loose 
panicles; stamens numerous Eugenia 
Flowers borne singly 
Leaves opposite; flowers tubular, white, 4-petaled . Guettarda 
Leaves alternate or spiral 
Flowers tubular at base but split along the upper side, 
white; fruit a small white berry; leaves slightly fleshy. . . . 
Scaevola 
Flowers with separate white petals, numerous pink stamens, 
3 in. across; fruit a large woody box; leaves thin with a 
reddish midrib Barringtonia 
Leaves round, ovate to elliptic, but not markedly obovate 
Leaves round, concave, saucer-like Nothopanax 
Leaves not as above 
Flowers tubular, red or orange Cordia 
Flowers never red or orange 
Flowers borne in umbels; fruits narrow, sticky; large forest 
trees . Pisonia 
Flowers borne otherwise; fruits not as above; shrubs 
Fuits compound, white, fleshy, 1-2 in. long. . . .Morinda 
Fruits flattened, greenish, dry, 14-14 in. wide, with red 
wedge-shaped seeds. Glochidion 
B. Herbs, sometimes very large, or vines (See also A and C) 
Marine plants growing in salt water, with thin flat elongate leaves Thalassia 
Not marine plants 
Leafless vines with greenish or orange stems, parasitic .Cassytha 
Not leafless vines 
Large herbs with auriculate leaves, growing from tubers 
Leaves with rounded auricles 
Leaves pale green or glaucous; plants seldom over 2 ft. tall in cultivation 
Colocasia 
Leaves glossy green; plants up to 10 ft. or more Alocasia 
Leaves with sharp-pointed auricles Cyrtosperma 
Leaves not auriculate; roots not tuberous (except Tacca) 
Leaves palmately then pinnately divided; flowers bearing numerous long threadlike 
filaments . .Tacca 
Leaves and flowers not as above 
Vines with climbing or creeping stems 
Leaves ternate, of 3 leaflets 
