Brachyphyllia eckeli Duncan 
PI* fig* 
1867. Brachyphylli a e eke 11 , Duncan, Quart, lour. Geol. Soc. 
London, Vol. XXIV, pp. 13, 24, PI. II, fig. 4. 
Original: 
"The eorallum is large, massive , and irregular. The coral- 
lites are cylindrical, of various lengths, and are not always 
parallel, neither are they equidistant; they are not free, "but 
their calices are more or 1©bs continuous hy means of the costae. 
The walls are stout and independent. The calices are large, and 
are of various depths, and they do not rise as truncated cones; 
but their interspaces are broad, convex, and are traversed by the 
more or less continuous costae. The columella is small, spongy, 
and prominent. The septa are numerous, unequal, and crowded; 
they are thicker at the wall than elsewhere, are barely exsert, 
and are faintly dentate. They are usually forty-eight in number. 
There are six systems and four cycles, and some orders of the 
