"Coral an ineruat tag mass over 12$ ms. acroea, and fro® 5 to 20 sou 
thick. Til a texture is rath or solid and heavy , there being much solid 
exotheca hat ween the cal tele#, which a r® rather far apart, th© inter- 
space© being mostly equal to, and often exceeding, their diameter. 
"Th® cal idea arc round, regularly stellate, a little prominent , 
with swollen , sloping, eosiat® rims, much as in those ©f £. annularis , 
which they resemble in sice, though distinctly larger. Th© *Sep t^are’ 
in thro© very regular cycles* the twelve principal on® s are wide, nearly 
equal, all reaching the rather large columella} their edges are perpen- 
dicular and finely, sharply serrate, with slender , rough, teeth, which 
extend also over their prominent, obtuse, or sub truncate summits, giv- 
ing the® a rough appearance under a lens; their surfaces are also 
rough or hispid with numerous conical grains. The septa of the third 
cycle ar® narrow, straight, and usually reach about half-way to the 
columella. 
"The costa® ar® thick, not very high, meeting or inosculating be- 
tween th© caliclee, and covered with a single row of small, slender, 
rough ©pinnies. The columella is wall developed, formed of contort- 
ed trabecular processes, and often having a small pit in the center 
and a few erect sp inula# , similar to the slender, rough, pal i form 
teeth that often (but not regularly) stand at the has© of som® of 
th© 12 larger septa. 
"In section® th® walls are very thick and nearly solid. Th© sn- 
dothechal dissepiments ar© small, thin, irregularly convex or flat 
above. The c&liclas are not filled up below, or only slightly en- 
croached upon, hy a deposit between some of th® sepia* Diameter of 
th© c alleles 3'"io 3.5 mm. $ distance between them mostly 2 to 4 mm., 
often more. 
"Florida Reefs (Maj. I* B. Hunt), Tax© Museum, Ho. 98. Hear 
Hassau, H* P* (coll. R, P. Whitfield), Amer, Mus. ,N®w York. 
"This has the general appearance of 0. annul aria , but with ©all- 
eles larger than usual and decidedly farther*" apart. The wall© and 
exotheca are much thicker and more solid, and the end ©thecal cells 
are fewer and less regular. The sharply ©pi male sc and hispid septa 
and costa® are also characteristic. Th® exotheeal deposit® ar® near- 
ly as ©olid as la Gculina. 
A Nassau specimen, in the American Museum, is m irregular , round- 
ed mass, about & inches in diameter, and 3 to 4 thick, with, a lobu- 
lated surface. The coral is heavy and solid} the Surface of the 
coenenohym I© spinal©©#} th© costas well developed, Th# cal idee 
are more variable in size than In th# type* In some places being one- 
half smaller and closely crowded. Coll. R. F. Whitfield," 
