_— Ophiogtossum.} OPHIOGLOSSACE. 1263 
1149. Angiopteris Hoffm. 
Large, shrubby ferns; fronds very large, 2-pinnate, with two 
fleshy, persistent, aie n appendages ; the base of the stipes 
clavate, spuriously articulate with axis; pinne and _pinnules 
articulate with rachis; veins simple or forked, free. Sporangia 
Sessile, very close together but not concrete, arranged in a linear- 
oblong or boat- -shaped band near the edge of the frond. 
2 ANGIOPTERIS EVECTA Hofim.; F. I. C. 460. Marattia 
pinnata F, I. 763 (Ed. C. B. C.). 
Chota Nagpur ; Chittagong. 
A huge fern, with thick caudex; fronds 6-20 feet long. 
1150. Kaulfussia Bl. 
Herbs; fronds long, stipitate, ternate or digitate, with two 
short, fleshy, iene appendages, lobes of frond elliptic, 
_ Main-veins costate; veinlets copiously anastomosing, with free, 
included wide, aoa dorsal, scattered, copious. Sporangia 
_ Sessile, 10-15, quite concrete, in raised circular masses hollow in 
the centre, with the oblo ong apertures on their inn c 
2847, Kavunrussia escuuirouia BL; F. I. C. 462, 
Chittagong. 
A fern, 2-3 feet high. 
Order CLYI, OPHIOGLOSSACEX. 
Herbs, small or medium, usually terrestrial, occasionally 
®piphytic; fertile frond rising from the base of the s . 
Spicate or racemose or paniculate ; sterile frond entire, digitate o 
Pinnate ; veins free or anastomosing ; vernation erect. >a 
deeply 2-valved, opening laterally nearly to base, without a ring. 
ES , 
Sterile frond Sn rarely palmately gan EE Claes een Ophioglossum. 
Sterile frond digit 
1151. Ophioglossum Linn. 
_ Small herbs, usually terrestrial, rarely epiphytic ; sterile frond 
Simple, entire, rarely palmate; veins reticulated; fertile usually 
at the base of the sterile, upraised, rarely as if distinct direct from 
the corm. Sporangia sessile, arranged in two rows to form a 
_ harrow, close spike. 
