ISIS. 107 



Windings, both of its bony and flefhy part ; and likewife, 

 as it rifes, we find it inclofing (hells and other extraneous 

 fubftances, that ftick to it, like the Gorgonias. 



This beautiful Coral is often brought by our Eaft-India 

 fliips from Prince's Ifland, in the Straits of Sunda, on 

 the fouthern coaft of Sumatra. Specimens with the flefh 

 on them are rarely to be met with, as the failors generally 

 fcrape off the flefh to fhew the beauty of the black and 

 white joints. 



3. Ifis coccinea. Dwarf Scarlet I fis. J, AB '!. 2 ' 



Ifis pumila varie ra- This little ' Iris has its 



mofa 7 ramulis divarica- branches irregularly fpread. 

 tis, ojfe articulato lineari Its bone is jointed, llender, 

 fubftriato ruberrimo^ in- very red, and a little ftriated ; 

 ternodiis brevibusfpongio- the joints are united by fhort, 

 Jis fulvhj came intus pal- fpongy, yellowifh genicula- 

 lide rofea, extus cellulis tions. The flefh on the in- 

 elevatis verruciformibus fide is of a, pale rofe color ; on 

 coccmeis, ofculis minimis, the outfide it is covered with 



little rifing wart-like fcarlet 

 cells, each having a little 

 mouth. 



Tab. 12. Fig. 5. 



This Dwarf Ifis differs from the Dichotomous Ifis of 

 the Cape, in being much fmaller, and irregular in its 

 branches. Nothing can exceed the brightnefs of its fcar- 

 let color. It is about two or three inches high, and was 

 collecled on the coaft of Mauritius, in the year 1767, 

 and prefented to Dr. J. Fothergill, with many other rare 

 fea productions, by the furgeon of an Eaft-India fhip that 



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