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TURBIX0LIA1J.E. 
THE MORAY CUP-CORAL. 
Pa raci/a thus Taxil ia mis. 
(Sp. nov.) 
Plate X. Fig. 6. 
Specific Character. Plates in five imperfect C 5 mles ; calice elliptical ; ribs 
notched above, granulous below. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Coralliim. Slightly turbinate, adhering by a base broader than any 
other part, a little diminishing towards mid-height, and widening gently 
above and below. Wall thin. Height about equal to the medium diameter. 
Ribs. Distinct from base to margin ; on the 
\ipper half prominent, thin, with a rather sharp, 
but irregularly notched edge, separated by inter- 
costal furrows of about twice their width ; on 
the lower half forming low rounded ridges, 
crowned with conical granules, set in two or three 
iiTCgular longitudinal rows ; all are nearly alike 
in every respect. 
Calice. Elliptical ; the axes as 24 : 31. 
Plates. Forming five cycles and six .systems ; 
but those of the fifth cycle are wholly wanting 
in three systems, and present in both halves of 
the other three. Not very close-set, not very salient, thin, very little thick- 
ened externally, the highest point of their edge a little within the margin, 
whence it slopes very slightly inward and downward, in an undulate line, 
ending with an abrupt angle, whence the inner edge descends i)erpendicu- 
larly : the entire edge rises into irregular eminences and blunt points, 
and both surfaces are roughened with coarse granules. 
Columella. Formed of two or three much twisted lamella;, with broad 
rounded lobes, rising from the united palules. 
Palules. Thin, waved, lobed and granulate, like the septa; those of 
the tertiary septa large ; the others inconspicuous, and only here and there 
discernible ; united in the centre into an irregularly waved and perforated 
horizontal plate. 
P. TAXILIANUS 
( magnified ). 
A portion cut away to 
show the plates. 
