296 ZOOPHYTES. 



Feejee Islands and the East Indies. Exp. Exp. 



This species, like the agariciformis, has a central area below, over 

 which the papilla? are crowded, but not radiate; but these papilla? are 

 much coarser, and in general rounded obtuse, and the lamella? above 

 are less even and not so crowded, giving the corallum a very open 

 appearance ; moreover they are not finely denticulate, although the 

 short teeth sometimes become almost obsolete. There are no distinct 

 tentacular teeth. 



The smaller specimen, represented by figure 1, is from the Feejees. 

 It is a double one, consisting of two united individuals, a kind of twin, 

 measuring three and a half inches in diameter, and half to three quar- 

 ters of an inch in thickness. The lamella? are short dentate, and the pa- 

 pillae below are stout and nearly globular. The rudimentary tentacles 

 are quite peculiar. In another small specimen of the same size, and 

 probably identical, from the Sooloo Sea (figure 2), the lamella? are 

 short dentate, and the papilla? below oblong and more slender than on 

 the Feejee specimen. The lamella? are much stouter than in speci- 

 mens of the agariciformis of the same size. The large specimen from 

 the Feejees (figure 3), appears to be the same species ; the lamella? 

 are neatly repand-toothed, and a few undulating lines may be seen on 

 the lateral surface parallel with the margin, as in both the smaller 

 Feejee and the Sooloo specimens. The papilla? below are obtuse, the 

 larger oblong and little exceeding a line in length ; and they are in 

 rather crowded radiating lines for two-thirds of the distance to the 

 centre, beyond which they are shorter and scattered, but numerous. 

 The specimen is concave below ; it measures seven inches across, and 

 two inches in height, and the corallum has a thickness of two-thirds 

 of an inch at the margin and one and a quarter inches about the 

 centre. 



Mad. Fungites, Ellis and Solander, tab. 28, Fungia agariciformis, Lamouroux, tab. 28, 

 fig. 5 ; the figure is characteristic. fig. 5 ; and Encyc. pi. 483, fig. 1. 



9. FUNGIA INTEGRA. (Dana.) 



F. grandis, orbicularis. Corallum lamellis incequalibus, obsolete denti- 

 culatis ; subtus superfaie remote et incequaliter radiatd, radiis cras- 

 sime echinatis, spinis scepe acervatis, in medio parvulo minutis. 



