WrrUIN THE GENUS BENDKONErnTIlYA. 



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and are densely covered with minute blunt cones. There is no 

 distinct evidence of a crown. 



The supporting bundle is strongly de- 

 veloped, and iuckides nxnnerous curved 

 spindles of various sizes up to 3-5 mm. 

 in length. 3 or 4 spindles, often about 

 3 mm. long, make the apex of a bundle, 

 and one is stronger than tiie others 

 and projects beyond the polyp for over 

 0-5 mm. The other spindles of the sup- 

 porting bundle are very much smaller. 

 All show a very dense covering of high, 

 blunt cones. 



7. Other spicules. The lower cortex is 

 densely packed with very thick, rough 

 spindles, triradiates, quadiiradiates, irre- 

 gular bodies, and small, almost globular 

 forms, with one particularly strong boss n. hahereri Kiik. 



and numerous jagged points. The com- 

 pound tubercles of all these spicules are well suited for inter- 

 locking. Some of the spindles are irregularly expanded at one 

 end, and might be called club-like in a loose usage of that term. 



LocALrrY : — Station 258. 



One specimen shows an undamaged sterile stalk, which has its 

 long diameter in the same plane as the slightly flattened poly- 

 parium. The stl>lk is bright crimson, and shows veiy markedly 

 a multitude of irregular, globular, slightly stellate small spicules 

 which might perhaps be called " astroscleres." 



Some of the anthocodial points show 8-10 rather irregularly 

 converging pairs of rough spindles. There is no definite crown. 

 The degree to which the supporting bundle projects varies con- 

 siderably in different parts of the colony. 



LocALiiy : — Station 282. 



Another colony, marked by a very short sterile stalk, a trans- 

 verse oval mode of growth and little indication of foliate basal 

 branches, shows an interesting colour variation which catches the 

 eye at once. The 8 anthocodial points consist of 7 or more 

 converging pairs of short spindles, but the upper half of each 

 point has bright red spicules, while the lower half and the inter- 

 mediates are white. In most of the polyps this contrast is very 

 pronounced, but in some cases the red spicules predominate, and 

 in other cases there is a slight mixture of the two colours. 



Locality: — Station not marked. 



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