462 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



much resembles in general habit) ; Ceylon, central provinces, above 

 5,000 feet elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also all round the world in the tropics and a little beyond in 

 the southern zone.) 



GENUS XCV.— KAULFUSSIA. (Blume.) 

 (After Kaulfuss, of Halle, a writer on Ferns.) 



Capsules sessile, 10-15, quite concrete, in raised circular masses, 

 which are hollow in the centre, with the oblong apertures on the 

 inner face ; veins costseform, parallel veinlets copiously anastomosing 

 with free venules in the areoles ; fronds 2-3 feet high, long stipate 

 palmately lobed, and springing from two short fleshy stipukeform 

 appendages ; lobes of the fronds oblong elliptical ; a genus of a 

 single species. 



1. Kaulfussia /esculifolia. (£1.) Stipes 12-18 inches long, 

 herbaceous, auricled at the base; fronds digitate (like a chesnut leaf), 

 or ternate; the central pinnae the largest, oblong, spathulate, 6-12 

 inches long, 3-4 inches broad, the others smaller, margins entire or 

 lobed, texture fleshy-herbaceous ; sori copious scattered. Bl. En. 

 PI. Jav. Fil. 260. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 185, (free included veinlets 

 not shown). K. assamica, Griff. Not. 1. ii. 628. 



North India, Assam, Cachar, Chittagong Hills, 250 feet 

 elevation. 



(Also in the Malay Islands and Philippines.) 



SUB-ORDER VI.— OPHIOGLOSSACE^E. 



Capsule deeply 2-valved, opening down the side nearly to the 

 base, without a ring; vernation erect; terrestrial or epiphytic. 



GENUS XCVI.— OPHIOGLOSSUM. (Z.) 



{Ophis, a snake ; glossa, a tongue.) 



Capsules sessile, arranged in two rows, forming a narrow close 

 spike, which arises from the base or centre of the barren segment ; 



