insion. The calyces are pretty evenly and regularly distributed along the edg< 



and their various expansions and pr . but there are also a t<-w scattered ones 



surfaces of the girdles. 



The individual calyces are in the form of shorl cylinders when the polyp is expanded 



and, rounded domes when it is retracted. A typical one measures about t.6 mm. high and 



mm. broad. The calyx walls are filled with smal! spindles which are horizontally disposed 



ind vertically disposed distally. The margin is ornamented with 8 angular points formed 



1>\ the converging ends of spindles. The polyps are many of them well expanded, white in 



. tlu-ir walls with S series of horizontal spicules which are curved to fit th<- e,, muur <>! 



walk. Below the tentacle bases these spindles are arranged en chevron and rise in s 



points corresponding i" those <>t the calyx margin; each point being composed of the distal 



ends of several spindles. The dorsal surface "I each tentacle bears a symmetrical closely set 



Ie row "t" spindles arranged en chevron, luit with their points directed toward the bases 



of the tentacles. There are 10 to \2 pairs of pinnules to each tentacle. A fully expanded 



polyp (in alcohol) measures 5 mm. in spread, across tin- tentacles. 



There is a well-marked axis composed of a densely aggregated, felted mass of very 

 slender needle-like or rod-like spindles with their surfaces ornamented with scattered thorny 

 points. Mixed with these is a much less numerous form which is entirely different, being much 

 r, very stout, sometimes oval spindles with remarkably coarse and irregular verrucae. 



Spicules. 'These have heen described. Those of the axis are remarkably slender, rod- 

 like, comparatively smooth, hut with scattered thorny points: and a few strikingly dissimilar 

 or irregular spindles with coarse verrucee. These two types are also iound in the cccnenchyma 

 of the branches; but here the larger spicules are slender, comparatively regular spindles with 

 ordinary verrucae. 'The ccenenchyma contains many of the irregular oval spindles found sparingly 

 in the axis. There are also slender spindles in the calyces. 



Color. The leaves are bright scarlet, the polyps white, the stern and rachis rather 

 dull pink and the flattened basal part of stem very light pinkish or livid. 



General distribution. Type locality. Ternate, also reported from the Maldives and 

 the Indian < leean. 



This is quite variable in color. Some of the specimens are white with pink 



and others are creamv white with brownish or salmon colored calyces. One young 



imen from Station 319 is much like the colored ligure of the original described by GERMANOS. 



2. Solenocaulon grayi Stüder. 



Jtuder. Monatsbericht der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaft, zu Berlin, 



ui/on thomsoni (in part) Hickson. Alcyonaria of the Maldives, part I. [903, p. .; 



1 (on tortuosum (in part. Thomson and Simpson. Alcyonaria of the Indian Ocean, 11. 



:>. 160. 



iay of Bima, near South Fort. ;; meters. Mud with patches of line coral sand 



