386 ZOOPHYTES. 



1. DENDROPHYLLIA RAMEA. (Linn.) Blainvilk. 



D. arborescens, maxima, interdum 5' alta, ramis elongatis, teretibus, 

 ramulis apice 4-5'" crassis. Corallum undique subtiliter undulato- 

 striatum, caliculis 3-5'" latis et 4-8'" longis, paulo profundis. 



Large arborescent, sometimes 5 feet in height; branches long and 

 terete, branchlets 4 to 5 lines thick at summit. Corallum through- 

 out, finely undulato-striate; calicles 3 to 5 lines broad, and 4 to 8 

 long, rather shallow. 



Mediterranean; Cape Negro, Coast of Africa. Madeira. Exp. Exp. 



This is one of the largest of arborescent corals, easily distinguished 

 by its large, distant calicles, and undulato-striate surface (see fig. 31, 

 page 70). The bottom of the cell is broad and usually convex and 

 prominent. The lamellae are unequal, and in the adult cell, they are 

 forty-eight in number, of which twelve are large. 



Grand Madrepore rameux, Marsilli, Hist. Lithodendrum rameum, Schweig., Handb. 



Phys. de la Mer.,tab. 31, fig. 144, &c. 416. 



Madrepora maxima arborea, Shaw's Tra- Dendrophylliaramea, Bluinvillc, Man. 344, 



vels, foi., Oxford, 1738, append, p. 48, pi. 53, fig. 2. 



with a figure of a specimen from theAfri- , Cuvier, Reg. Anim. 1837, pi. 83, fig. 



can coast, in the Mediterranean. 1 ; the animal by Milne Edwards. 



, Tournefort's Inst., tab. 340. Oculina ramea, Ehrenb., G. xlviii. sp. 8. 



Madrepora ramea, Linn., ed. xii. 1280. Donati's figure, plate 7, in his Natural His- 



, Pallas, Zooph., 302, No. 176. tory of the Adriatic, and also Phil. Trans. 



, Ellis and Solander, 155, tab. 38. Abridg. x. 154, pi. 5, fig. A., is usually 



, Esper, i. 98, tab. 9, and tab. 10, A. referred to this species, but appears to 



, Bertolonii Amsen. Ital., 249. be a subarborescent Caryophyllia. For 



Caryophyttia ramea, Lamk.,ii.354, No. 11. a copy of the animals and cells, see Ellis 



, Lamour., Exp. Meth., 50, pi. 38. and Solander, tab. 32, figs. 3-8. The 



Matrepora ramea, Oken, Zool. i. 71. bifid tentacles must be an error. 



2. DENDROPHYLLIA MICRANTHA. (Ehrenberg.) Dana. 



D. habitu ramese. Corallum caliculis crebrioribus, cum ramis angus- 

 tioribus (2-3'" crassis) ; cettisprofundioribus, inter stitiis porosioribus. 



Resembling the ramea in habit. Corallum with the calicles more 



