TRIBE IV. ANTIPATHACEA. 579 



7. ANTIPATHES SUBPINNATA. 



A. ramosa, pinnata, pinnulis alternis, vix 1' longis,aliis interdum trans- 

 verse positis ; pinnularum axe setaceo. 



Ramose, pinnate, pinnules alternate, scarcely an inch long, a few at 

 right angles with the others ; axis of the pinnules setaceous. 



Mediterranean Sea. Lamourouz. 



Antipathes subpinnata, Ellis and Solander, , Lamouroux, Pol. flex., 379 ; Exp., 



101, tab. 19, figs. 9, 10. 32, pi. 19, figs. 9, 10 ; Encyc., 72. 

 , Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 484, No. 20. , Blainville, Man., 511. 



8. ANTIPATHES RETICULATA. (Esper.) 



A. in piano ramosa, ramis inordinate ascendentibus, crebris, scepe bipin- 

 natis, interdum coalitis, pinnulis divaricatis, 1 "' remotis, brevibus et 

 incequalibus ; ramorum ramulorumque axe filiformi et setaceo. 



Branching in a plane, branches irregularly ascending, crowded, often 

 bipinnate, pinnules sometimes coalescing, divaricate, about l lines 

 distant, short and unequal ; axis of branches and branchlets very 

 slender, and of pinnules setaceous, scabrous. 



East Indies (?). 



Antipathes reticulata, Esper, Fortsetz., i. 183, tab. 11 : "A. explanata, ramis inor- 

 dinate ascendentibus. ramulis clathratis, scaberrimis." 



2. Ramis non pinnatis. 



9. ANTIPATHES FLABELLUM. (Pallas.) 



A. flabellata, ramosissima, spatiose reticulata ; axe striato, ad later a 

 compresso, subspinoso. 



Flabellate, much branched, coarse reticulate ; axis striated, laterally 

 compressed, somewhat spinous. 



Indian Ocean. 



