32. MOPSELLA. 9 



31. ANICELLA. 



Coral fan-like, dichotomously branched ; branches separate, diva- 

 ricating in the same plane, arising from the short rather sunken 

 joints. Bark thin, hard, smooth, longitudinally grooved. Cells 

 minute, subcylindridal, short, produced in a narrow alternating series 

 on each edge of the branches and branchlets. Axis calcareous, 

 solid, with longitudinal grooves ; internodes very short, contracted, 

 cork-like. 



Anicella, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. 445. 



Hal. ? 



Like Melithcea, but the polype-cells small, prominent, and in a 

 single lateral series. 



It agrees with Mopsea in the joints being short and contracted ; 

 but they are cork-like, as in the younger branches of Melitella, and 

 horny. 



81. Anicella australis. B.M. 



Coral red, growing in one plane; the stem distinctly jointed; the 

 branchlets slender, with the joints very inconspicuous. 



Anicella australis, Gray, Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. 445, f. 4. 

 Hob. Port Essington (Jukes}. 



Fig. 2. 



Anicella australis. 



II. Coral erect, shrub-like, forked. 

 32. MOPSELLA. 



Coral tree-like, dichotomously branched ; branches diverging from 

 the swollen spongy joints. Axis articulated ; segments elongated, 



