5. VIRGULARIA. 15 



Pentiatula jimcea, Pallm, Zouph. p. 871. n. 217 ; Esper, PJlanzenth. iii. 



p. 87, t. 14. 

 Vii-o-ularia jiincea, Lamk. A. s. V. ii. p. 4:31, ed. 2. n. p. QAS, ; ScJiwct;/. 



Beoh. p. 2G, t. 2. f. 12; Cuvier, R. A. ed. 2. iii. p. 818; Ehreuh. 



Corall. r. M. p. 35 ; Blainv. Man. d'Act. p. 514, t. 90. f. 13 ; Dmia, 



Zooph. p. 592, not description ; Herklotz, Not. p. 12, 

 ? Virgularia australis, Blainv. Man. cfAct. p. 314 (vide Milne-Edxv.). 



Hab. Shores of Molucca and Borneo (Mus. Leyden). 



Cuvier considers that the Virgularia australis of Lamk. H. N. A. s. 

 V. ii. p. 432, does not differ from V.juncea (see Reg. Anim. ii. p. 83), 

 MM. Milne-Edwards and Haime observe that the stylet figured by 

 Seba (Thes. iii. t. 114. f. 2) is artificially sunk in a fragment of stony 

 matter (Corall. i. p. 21). 



8. Virgularia Reinwardtii. B.M. 



Body elongate, fusiform ; base swollen. The pinnules in series 



nearly at right angles with the axis of the stem ; the lower ones far 



apart on the sides of the stem ; the upper ones close together in front. 



Axis round. 



Virgularia Reinwardtii, Herklotz^ Not. p. 13, t. 7, f. 8. 

 Hab. Indian Seas (Mus. Leyden, lieinwardt) ; Amboina and Ceram 

 (B.M.). 



9, Virgularia elegans. B,M. 



Coral dark green ; the polypes rather irregular, crowded, in well- 

 marked concentric ridges ; the axis stony, cylindrical, smooth. 

 Hab. Australia, Shark's Bay (Mr. Rayner, 1859). 



Var. hexangularis. The axis with six acute angular ridges, A 

 fragment with the other specimens, which are frequent. 



See V. australis, Lamk. A. s. V. ii. p. 648, from an axis only 

 (from Australia?). 



10. Virgularia philippinensis. B.M. 



Hab. Philippines (Cuming), axis only. 



In the British Museum there are axes of two Pennatularia, probably 

 Virgidarice : — 



1, Philippines (Cuming). 



2. North Australia (Juices). 



11. Virgularia pusilla. 



Virgularia pusilla, Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst. 1805, iv, p. 184, t. 5. f. 2 

 (animal). 



" Coral small, slender, the pinnae extending nearly to the base, 

 which is rounded and bulbous. Pinnae of the upper portion surround- 

 ing the stalk on aU sides except the back, which is naked ; below 

 they are separated also by a narrow anterior space ; but the pinnae of 

 the opposite sides appear to coalesce anteriorly higher up, producing 



