30-2 ZOOPHYTES. 



Oblong-elliptic (7 inches by 4), nearly flat on both sides. Corallum 

 with the lamellae subequal, a little undulate, subentire, or obsoletely 

 crenulate; oririme nearly half as long as the corallum ; tentacular 

 teeth obsolete : below, crowdedly and evenly papillose; papillae small 

 rounded, scarcely A a line long. 



Plate 19, fig. 10, outline of a section ; 10 a, form of the disk. 



East Indies. Exp. Exp. 



One of the specimens in the Expedition collections measures seven 

 and a half inches by four in breadth ; and two others of half this length 

 have similar characters. The lamellae are nearly even, rather stout, 

 scarcely crenulate, and the papillae small and evenly crowded below. 

 There are eleven or twelve large lamellae in a breadth of an inch. 

 The whole is a simple animal. 



Fungus marinus obJongus, lamellis tenui- Fungia scutaria, Lamarck, 372, No. 6. 



bus, erectis, non denticulatis. Seba, ii., - , Lamouroux, Encyc., 419. 



tab. 112, fig. 29; from a small specimen. - , Blainv., Man., 337. 



Madreporafungites, Esper, i. 66 ; included - , Ehrenberg, G. xiv., sp. 3. 



with other species by Esper. - , Leuckart, op. cit., 49. 



17. FUNGIA PECTINATA. (Ehrenberg.} 



F. obkngo-elliptica, utrinque plana. Corallum lamellis rudius dentatis, 

 oririma ad utrumque finem usque productd. 



Oblong-elliptic, flat on both sides. Corallum with the lamellee rudely 

 dentate, oririme continued quite to each extremity. 



Indian Ocean (?). Ehrenberg. 



Ehrenberg, from whom this description is taken, states that this 

 species grows to a length of six inches. A young state of the fol- 

 lowing ? 



Fungia pectinata, Ehrenb., G. xiv., sp. 2. figured by Seba, as having non-dent icu- 

 Ehrenberg refers to Seba's fig. 29, No. late lamella. 



112, which has the general characters of , Leuckart, op. cit., 49. 



the scutaria, and is both described and 



