394 ZOOPHYTES. 



4. OCULINA AXILLARIS. (Ellis.) Lamarck. 



O. ramosa, dichotoma, ramis brevibus, divaricatis ; polypis remotis, 

 grandibus, terminalibus et azillaribus. Corattum caliculis turbinatis, 

 3-4'" crassis, lamellis paulum exsertis, cequalibus. 



Ramose, dichotomous ; branches short, divaricate ; polyps distant, 

 large, terminal and axillary. Corallum with turbinate calicles, 3 

 to 4 lines in diameter, lamellae a little exsert, even. 



East Indies. (Lamarck.) 



Mad. azittaris, Ellis and Sol., 153, tab. , Lamour., Exp. Meth., 64, pi. 13, 



13, fig, 5. fig. 5. 



Oculina axittaris, Lamarck, ii. 456, No. 4. , Deslongchamps, Encyc., 575. 



, Blainville, Man., 380. 



5. OCULINA VARICOSA. (Lesueur.) 



O. arborescens, 1' alta, laxe ramosa, ramulis elongatis, scepe divaricatis. 

 Corallum caliculis undique usque ad apicem divaricatis, brevibus, 

 apice 1J'" latis, basi valde tumida seu hemispheric^ ; ferme 24 la- 

 mellis subcequalibus, paulum exsertis. 



Arborescent, a foot high, loosely ramose ; branchlets long and often 

 divaricate. Corallum with the calicles every where, quite to the 

 apex, at right angles with the axis of the branch, short, l lines 

 broad at top, the base much inflated or hemispherical; lamellae 

 about 24 in number, subequal and even; a little exsert. 



Figure 28, page 67. 



West Indies, St. Thomas. Lesueur. 



The varicosa resembles the pattens in form, but is rather stouter, 

 the branchlets being mostly a quarter of an inch in diameter; and the 

 calicles are erect, even about the summits, instead of being very 

 oblique. The swelling bases of the calicles, as seen on the larger 



