decorated either with flarry impreffions, or with 

 undulations in the manner of the globular ones : 

 others again are of a ramified- figure, and vary greatly 

 in the difpolition and form of the branches of which 

 they confift. Amongft the branched Madrepores 

 the fpecies here figured is one of the largeft, and is 

 often feen of the height of nearly two feet. The 

 generality of fpecimens are however much lefs. Its 

 general colour is a very pale ferruginous, or cinna- 

 mon-colour. Each of the branches terminates in 

 an abrupt manner, as if broken, or cut off, and is 

 marked at the top with a ftar-fhaped impreffion, in 

 each of which, in the recent coral, refided an ani- 

 mal fomewhat allied to a Medufa. The external 

 furface of this coral is roughiih, and marked 

 throughout its whole length with fine longitudinal 

 ItriiE or furrows. It is a native of the Eaft Indies. 



