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nis decomposito-pinnatis ; pinnulis distichis ; pinnularum axe. setaceo, 

 hispido. 



Much branched, 2 feet high, paniculate, spreading, branches open, 

 alternate, decompound-pinnate, pinnules distichous; axis of the 

 pinnules setaceous, hispid. 



East Indies. 



Antipathcs mimosella, Lamarck, ii. 481, flex., 377 ; Exp. Meth., 31, pi. 19, figs. 



No. 8. 7, 8 ; Encyc., 70 ; Lamouroux describes 



, Lamouroux, Encyc., 71. the idex as follows: "A ramosissima, 



Antipatltes ulex (?), Ellis and Sol., 100, ramis sparsis, patentibus, hispidissimis, 



tab. 19, figs. 7, 8 ; and Lamour., Pol. attenuatis." 



12. ANTIPATHES PINNATIFIDA. (Lamouroux.} 



A. ramosa, 2' alta, ramis patentibus, alternis, pinnatifidis, ramulis 

 ramusculisque distichis vel subsparsis, rectis, antice projectis ; ramus- 

 culorum axe rigido, echinato. 



Ramose, 2 feet high ; branches open, alternate, pinnatifid, branchlets 

 and pinnules distichous, or somewhat scattered, straight; the axis 

 of the branchlets rigid, echinate. 



East Indies. 



A>itipiit/iespinnatifida,Ija.mour.,Po\. flex., Antipathes pinnatifida, Lamarck, 2d ed., 

 377, pi. 14, fig. 4 ; Encyc., 70. ii. 481, No. 8 a. 



13. ANTIPATHES CUPRESSUS. (Pallas.) 



A. elongate arborescens, ramulis lateralibus brevibus, creberrimis, paulum 

 recurvatis, bipinnatis. 



Elongate arborescent, lateral branchlets quite short and crowded, a 

 little recurved, bipinnate. 



Ciipressus marina, Seba, Thes., iii. tab. A. citpressina, Pallas, Zooph., 213. 



106, fig. 1 ; a specimen sixteen inches , Esper, Pflanz., ii. 143, tab. 3 ; a bad 



high, and three and a half broad. figure. 



Rumphius, Amboyn., tab. 80, fig. 2. A. cupressus, Ellis and Solander, 103. 



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