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((/) Small bent .spindle-shaped spicules with a few w'arts, 0"15 x 0'025 ; 

 018 X 0-02; 0-18 X 0-035. 



(b) Short, thick, very rough spindles with long pointed projections, 

 0-3 X 0-08. 



(r) Three veiy divaricate rays with a foliaceous expansion divided into 

 three to five smooth points not all in one plane, 225 x 0'18 ; 0'225 x 0"15 ; 

 018 X 0-15. 



(d) Irregular folia projecting from an irregularly expanded and branched 

 base, 0-225 x 0175 ; 02 x 0125. 



{{') Clul)s with the thickened end foliaceous and smooth, 0-22 x 0-12 ; 

 0-2 X 0-1. 



(/) Irregular forms almost scale-like, tri- to multi-radiate, edges very rough, 

 0-275 X 0-125 ; 022 x 0125 ; 015 x 01. 



{(/) Bent warty spindles with a somewhat ovoid foliaceous expansion 

 arising from the middle of the convex side, 0-2 x 0-12. 



(ft) Small stellate forms, O'l x 0-1. 



(/) Small crosses. Oil x 01. 



{J) Small double stars, 0-1 x 0-075. 



(k) Small irregular forms, O'l x 0-07. 



{I) S^jicules like the side view of a butterfly at rest, Oil x 0-075. 



Locality : Andamans. Marine Survey. 



A complete colony in the Wood-Mason Collection, has its basis of attach- 

 ment on a piece of dead coral. It is 130 mm. in height and 105 nun. in breadth. 

 The branching is in one plane and anastomosis is frequent. Some of the larger 

 branches exhibit a distinct flattening in a plane perpendicular to the plane of 

 ramification. The axis of the stem and main branches is almost black in 

 colour, but this fades gradually to a transparent yellow in the finer twigs. The 

 coenenchyma is somewhat thin and the polyps appear as small yellow domes 

 wnth a black dot on the summit representing the anthocodia?. The spicules 

 agree in detail with those of the specimen described above. 



Echinogorgia pseudosassapo, Kolliker. Plate III. fig. 9. 



Belonging to this species are several specimens, only one of which is 

 complete. It is of a dark red colour while most of the others are light brown, 

 one being much darker than the rest. The perfect specimen measures 10-5 cm. in 

 height and 11-5 cm. in maximum l:)readth. From a spreading base, which extends 

 over a stone to a distance of 3 mm. in diameter, the main stem arises and grows 

 vertically upwards to the full height of the colony. It measures 3-5 mm. in 

 diameter at the base, gradually diminishing to 2 mm. near the tip. The branch- 

 ing is irregular and in one plane. Most of the branches arise at about 45°, but 



