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2. Antipathes anguina. B.M. 



Antipathes anguina, Dana, I. c. 576. t. 56. f. I. 

 Cirripathes Sieboldii, Blainv. 

 Feejee Islands. 



3. Antipathes gracilis. B.M. 



Slender, tapering, slightly spinose. 

 Madeira (Mason). 



** Coral branched. 



4. Antipathes ftjrcata. B.M. 



Antipathes furcata, Seba, iii. t. 107. f. 4. 



Coral shrub-like, branched, repeatedly forked ; branches slender, 

 elongate, filiform ; stem slender, short, smooth. 

 Madeira (Mr. Mason, 1857). 



5. Antipathes frtjticosa. B.M. 



Coral shrub-like, very branchy ; branchlets linear, elongate, with 

 a few distant elongate branches, sometimes in a single row coming 

 from the same side of the branchlet ; spinules rather far apart. 



Stephens Island (J. B. Jukes). 



6. Antipathes pluma. B.M. 



Coral fan-like, branched, forked ; branchlets pinnate, simple, in 

 two opposite diverging series ; spinules very close, crowded. 

 Hab. ? 



7. Antipathes pedata. B.M. 



Coral fan-like, on one plane, branched ; branchlets linear, elon- 

 gate, in one series on the upper side of the arched branches, and 

 branched on the inner side. 



West Indies (Scrivener) . 



8. Antipathes reticulata. B.M. 

 Antipathes reticulata, Esper, i. 183. t. 11. 



Coral fan-shaped in one plane, branches slender ; branchlets very 

 slender, subpinnate, irregularly disposed, often anastomosing, form- 

 ing a suborbicular frond. 



West Indies (Scrivener). 



9. Antipathes atlantica. B.M. 



Coral shrub- like, branched, branches fan-like, irregularly pinnate ; 

 branchlets elongate, with distant subulate pinnae, the larger one 

 sometimes pinnated, the branches and branchlets often anastomo- 

 sing. 



West Indies (Scrivener). 



