TRIBE IV. ANTIPATHACEA. 585 



JJc.ruosis ; axe undique hispido, ramulorum elongate setiformi, fragili ; 

 polijpis flavidis, ore prominente, ramulorum plerumque uniseriatis. 



Arborescent, lax and spreading ramose, very large (3 feet high) ; 

 branches subflexuous ; axis throughout hispid, of branchlets, long 

 and slender setiform, fragile ; polyps brownish-yellow, mouth pro- 

 minent; on branchlets, nearly in a single series. 



Plate 56, fig. 2, part of a branch, with the expanded polyps, natural 

 size ; 2 a, polyp, enlarged; 2 b, part of trunk, natural size. 



Sandalwood Bay, Feejees, in ten fathoms. Exp. Exp. 



This species appears to have much the habit of the dichotoma of 

 the Mediterranean, but is more spreading in its branches. In the 

 secund position of the polyps, it also appears to be near that species. 

 The trunk at base is nearly half an inch thick. It gives off stout 

 branches, and subdivides above quite irregularly. 



The Antipathes compressa, of Esper, (Fortsetz., i. tab. 13,) has the habit of this spe- 

 cies, as far as figured. 



APPENDIX. Antipathes dichotoma, (Pallas.} This species is de- 

 scribed from the figure and account by Marsilli (Lith., No. 9, fig. 

 101, tab. 21), who obtained his specimen near Marseilles, in one hun- 

 dred and forty fathoms. It is rather sparingly branched, with the 

 branches elongate and slender, and not in a plane. He describes it 

 as two feet in height and one and a half lines thick at base ; it was 

 covered with minute globes on one side, when first obtained, which 

 were the partially closed polyps. (Pallas, Zooph., 216. A. dichotoma, 

 Lamour., Pol. flex., 374; Encyc., 69.) 



The Antipathes glaberrima, of Esper (ii., tab. 9), may be a decorti- 

 cated Gorgonia. It is described by Esper as follows: "A. dichotoma 

 (raro reticulatim coalita), incurvato-flexuosa et contorta, ligno atro, 

 extus glaberrimo, nitidissimo." It is a large stout species, having the 

 stem at base a third of an inch thick. The figure, in form, resembles 

 his compressa. 



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