TRIBE IV. ANTIPATHACEA. 577 



Quite simple, somewhat spirally flexuous; polyps greenish, scarcely 

 beaked ; tentacles fuscous at base ; axis with faint articulations at 

 long distances; spinules rather remote, compressed, subacute. 



Plate 56, fig. I, extremity of zoophyte, natural size; 1 o, axis; 1 b, 1 c, 

 polyps, enlarged ; 1 d, section of axis, enlarged. 



From the reefs off Mathuata, Venua Lebu, Feejee Islands. Exp. 

 Exp. 



This species resembles the preceding, but the polyps are not pro- 

 perly beaked, and the spinules of the surface are more distant, stouter, 

 and hardly acute. Moreover, distinct nodes are apparent in the axis, 

 every three or four inches, towards the upper extremity of the zoo- 

 phyte. The whole stem was six feet long, and grew in five feet water, 

 yet it was so twisted as not to reach the surface. The polyps were 

 very sluggish in their motions (as the figures indicate), and about a 

 sixth of an inch in diameter. 



It is probable that this is the Palmiuncus anguinus, of Rumphius, and perhaps also 

 the Cirrhipates Sieboldi, of Blainville (Man., 512). 



II. A. simplices, lateraliter longe pinnuliferis. 



3. ANTIPATHES LARIX. (Esper.) 



A. simpkx, pr&longa, ramulis longissimis (2-4"), undique spar sis, ramu- 

 lorum axe setiformi. 



Simple, very long ; branchlets very long (2 to 4 inches), pointing 

 every way, and having a setiform axis. 



The Mediterranean, Gulf of Venice. Lamarck. 



Antipathes larix, Esper, Pflanz., ii. 147, Antipathes larix, Lamour., Pol. flex., 374 ; 

 tab. 4. Encyc., 70. 

 , Lamk., ii. 482, No. 11. , Blainville, Man., 511. 



4. ANTIPATHES EUPTERIDEA. (Lamarck.) 



A. simpkx, pinnata, pinnulis simplidbus eleganter incurvis ; caulis axe 

 subtriquetro, pinnularum setaceo. 



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