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 costaeform, 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 stipulaeform 
appendages ; lobes of the fronds oblong elHptical ; a genus of a 
single species. 
I. Kaulfussia ^sculifolia. {-BL) 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. 
PL Jav. FiL 260. Bedd. F. B. I. ^.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 PhiUppines.) 
SUB-ORDER VI.— OPHIOGLOSSACEi^:. 
Capsule deeply 2-valved, opening down the side nearly to the 
base, without a ring ; vernation erect ; terrestrial or epiphytic. 
GENUS XCVL— QPHIOGLOSSUM. (Z.) 
{Ophts, 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 ; 
