402 ZOOPHYTES. 



Glomerate ; a series of bursiform tentacles of a bright green colour, 

 and others with pale green tips, which are coralligenous and there- 

 fore erect, and enclose a calcareous lamella. Corallum with the 

 calicles 6 to 8 lines high, and often 4 to 5 broad, somewhat com- 

 pressed, exterior remotely carinate, rising from a spongy base ; 

 lamellae cultriform, often 3 lines exsert, apex subacute. 



Plate 28, fig. 2, corallum, natural size ; 2 a, animal, enlarged ; 2 b, 

 tentacle, enlarged ; 2 c, calicle, natural size ; 2 d, section of calicle ; 

 2 e, texture of spongy part. 



Feejee Islands. Exp. Exp. 



The sharp projecting lamellae give a bristled appearance to the 

 corallum, as in the cuspidalum. It differs from that species in its 

 smaller size, its calicles not turbinate, and crowded together with 

 intervals between of but a line in width. The projecting lamellaB of 

 the exterior are sharp and thin. The specimen is a convex mass, 

 the margin of which is free and spreading, with small horizontal 

 calicles. 



6. ANTHOPHYLLUM CUSPID ATUM. (Esper.} Dana. 



A. glomeratum; tentaculis clavatis, purpurascentibus, apice albis, disco 

 late viridi. Corallum tubulis compressiusculis, angulosis, caliculis 

 turbinatis, -1" latis, scepe valde irregularibus, lamellis longe exsertis. 



Glomerate; tentacles clavate, colour approaching purple, white at 

 tips; disks bright green. Corallum with the tubes much com- 

 pressed, angular ; calicles turbinate, to 1 inch broad, often very 

 irregular, lamellae long exsert. 



Red Sea, Ehrenberg. The China Seas, Esper, who received it from 

 M. Chemnitz. 



The large size of the calicles distinguishes this species from the other 

 Anthophylla. 



Madrepora cuspidata, Esper, i. 155, tab. Gcdaxea cuspidala, Oken. Zool., i. 73. 



28 ; a species with long turbinate calicles Antlwphyllum fasciculare, Ehrenberg, op. 



of the size above mentioned, with the la- cit. Gen. Ivi., sp. 1. "Tubulis com- 



mellse one-third to one-half of an inch pressis, angulosis, 4" altis, turbinatis, 



exsert, and nearly acute at apex. stellis 5-!" latis, lamellis exsertis," &c. 



