DESCRIPTION OF A ZOOPHYTE. 18si 
Curp—or Bow1.—Cireular—and subconical, in diameter at the brim 17 
inches, about the middle 123, and near the bottom 7 inches, capable of 
containing thirty six quarts of water: in substance corky—but non< 
elastic, made up of cells or tubes—running into one another, and di: 
vided by a slender membrane, not more than half a line in thickness: 
ever the whole surface, both within and without, are-spread innumeras 
ble pores, the mouths af which are closed with capillary—cottony— 
fibres im converging radii from the circumference to-the centre of 
each pores these when seen under the power of a.common lens, have a 
dense. downy appearance. 
Tur height of the specimen, from-which this description is taken, is 
37 inches, and something larger than one presented to the Asiatic Society 
by Joun PALMER; Esq: 
In an Essay on British Sponges, by the late Grorcz Monraau, Esq. 
printed in the 2d volume of the Wernerian Society’s Transactions, is 
described—** Spongia Scypha’’—which bears some resemblance to the 
specimen from which the plate annexed was taken, but it is diminutive 
mall its parts, when compared to this Indian species. 
