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erectis, literalibus oblique ineumbentibus, instructa." This arrangement of the lamellae 

 is common to the species here included, and the free cuneate Euphyllise constituting the 

 genus FlabeUum of Lesson. 



11. Affixes; simplicissimce ant ramosce. 



GENUS V. DESMOPHYLLUM. EHKENBERG. 



Caryophyllidce non gemmate, simplicissimce, affixes. Corolla infundi- 

 buliformia; lamellisfere integris, in plures fasciculus dispositis. 



Not budding, quite simple, attached. Coralla infundibuliform ; lamellae 

 nearly entire, and arranged in a series of groups or fascicles. 



The Desmophylla are distinguished from the other species of this 

 family by the grouping of the lamella, a character apparent over 

 the exterior as well as vi ithin the broad shallow cell. The genus was 

 instituted by Ehrenberg for the Caryophyllia dianthus, and named 

 from fctffjwi, bundle, and <puXXov, leaf. 



DESMOPHYLLUM DIANTHUS. (Esper.) Ehrenberg. 



D. bipotticare, disco pollicari, basi flexuosa. Corattum lamellis impari- 

 bus ternis, in 12 fasciculus approximatis, mediis solis majoribus fere 



12, omnibus intus truncatis. 



Two inches in height, with the disk an inch broad, and at base 

 flexuous. Corallum with the lamella? in 12 groups of threes, the 

 middle of each larger, all truncate within. 



East Indies. 



The description of the above species, as well as of the following, is 

 by Ehrenberg, from specimens in the Royal Museum at Berlin. 



Mad. dianthus, Esper, Fortsetz. i. 85, tab. Mussa dianthus, Oken, Zool. i. 73. 



Desmophyllum dianthus, Ehrenb., G. xliv. 

 Caryophyllia dianthus, Blainv., Man. 344. sp. 1. 



