CXX11. GENEBA OF FEENS : 



(b) Sori pedicellate. 



171. EUPODIUM, J. Smith, Hook. Journ. Sot. iv. 190. 



(in obs.); Id., Land. Journ. Sot. i. 129. 



MAKATTI.E sp., Aiict. 



Sori dorsal, non-involucrate, pedicellate, roundish-oblong.horny 

 opaque, longitudinally divided into two opposite valves or lobes, 

 thus consisting of two opposite series of (about 4) connate spore- 

 cases, the valves convex outside, plane within, the spore- cases of 

 each valve bursting on their inner face, by a vertical cleft or 

 slit. Receptacles sub-globose, medial. Involucres none. Veins 

 (pinnules) simple forked or pinnate, from a central costa ; venules 

 free, dorsally soriferous. 



Fronds large, tri-pinnate; pinnules articulated. Eachis winged. 

 Ehizome fleshy, sub-globose, or becoming erect in age. A genus 

 well-distinguished by the pedicellate sori. 

 Ex. : E. Kaulfussii, J. Sm. 



Order MAEATTIACE^E. Tribe KATTLFUSSINE^. 



172. KAULFUSSIA, Slume, Enum. Fil. Java, 260. 

 MACBOSTOMA, Hooker MS. ; ASPIDII sp., Auct. 



Sori dorsal, non-indusiate, sessile, globose, fleshy-coriaceous, 

 concavo-hemispherical, crenate, consisting of 10 12 spore-cases 

 arranged in a single concrete cyclose series ; the spore-cases 

 bursting on the inner face, by a vertical oblong or linear- obovate 

 cleft or slit. Receptacles globose, compital. Veins prominent, 

 pinnate ; venules anastomosing in hexagonoid areoles, soriferous 

 on the points of confluence, the ultimate areoles containing free 

 clavate veinlets. 



Fronds coarse, ternate, the under surface furnished copiously 

 with cavities, which are probably secretory organs. Ehizome 

 thick, ? decumbent. The structure of the fructifications in this 

 genus is very distinct from all others, the single series of concrete 

 spore-cases forming a shallow circular cup-shaped, or rotate mass. 



Ex. : K. aesculifolia, SI. \ K assamica, Griff. 



