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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
154. KAULFUSSIA, Blume. 
♦ 
Vernation uniserial, contiguous, decumbent; sarmentum 
thick, fleshy ; each frond rising from between two short, fleshy, 
stipulseform appendages. Fronds broad, pinnately-trifoliate, with 
the two lower pinnce sometimes 
bipartite, 1-2 feet high, long, 
stipate, pale underneath, and 
furnished with numerous con- 
cave dots. Veins costseform, 
parallel ; venules compound ana- 
stomosing, with free veinlets 
terminating within the areoles. 
Synangia sessile, compital, super- 
ficial, distant, orbicular, concave- 
hemispherical, each consisting of 
10-20 sporangia, laterally con- 
nate in a circular series, and 
slightly enlarged. No. i. opening by a slit on their interior 
side. 
1. K. aesculifolia, Blume ; Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 229 ; 
Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 59 A . — Java and Philippine 
Islands. 
Order III.-OPHIOGLOSSACE^]. 
Flowerless plants consisting of straight evolved fronds, which 
produce from their disk or base a rachiform, simple or com- 
pound paniculate spike, of unilocular, sessile, connate, homo- 
geneous cases (sporangia), opening by a vertical slit in two 
valves, containing reproducing spores. 
155. OPHIOGLOSSUM, Linn. 
Fronds erect or pendulous, with dissimilar fertile and sterile 
segments, or rarely the whole frond rachiform. Sterile frond or 
segments foliaceous, simple, entire, palmately lobed or dicho- 
tomously branched. Veins reticulated. Fertile segments spike- 
like, simple or rarely forked. Sporangia connate, in two rows. 
