38. ACANELLA. 



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at its apex a cell of a shape between campanulate and infundibuli- 

 form, the margin of which bears eight pairs of long, upright, spine- 

 like spicula. There are also sessile cells at the sides of the ultimate 

 branchlets, one at eacji interjoint. All the cells are of a pale brown 

 colour. The pellicle covering the branchlets contains long spicula, 



Acanella arbuscula. 



which are for the most part large and fusiform, whilst the smaller 

 ones are cylindrical, and all are brown and minutely tuberculated. 



"A single example of this coral was obtained from a fisherman at 

 Cama de Lobos, Madeira, and it is now in the British Museum. Its 

 length, without the base, which is wanting, is 13 inches, and it is 



