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TRIBE II. — OARYOPHYLLACEA. 
b. Cells not coronate within. 
I. Zoophytes free when adult. 
Genus III.— STEPHANOPHYLLIA.— Michelin. 
Hoii'budding Cyathopliyllidse, free and disciform ; below, 
nearly flat. Coralla above, radiated with prominent lamellae. 
Genus IV. — TUEBINALIA.— Lamaeck. 
Non-budding Caryophyllidae ; free, turbinate, often com- 
pressed ; cell of the corallum usually broad, excavate. 
II. Attached ; quite simple or ramose. 
Genus V. — DESMOPHYLLUM. — Eheenberg. 
Not budding, quite simple, attached. Coralla infandibuli- 
form ; lamellae nearly entire, and arrangeddn a series of groups 
or fascicles. 
Desmophyllum dianthus (Esper,) Ehrenberg. — Two inches in height, 
with the disk an inch broad, and at base flexuous. Corallum with the lamellge 
in 12 groups of threes, the middle of each larger, all truncate within. 
East Indies. 
Desmophyllum stellaria (Ehrenberg). — An inch in height, disk half an 
inch broad. Corallum with the lamellze in 12 groups of threes, the middle 
one larger, all sub equal. 
Genus VI.— CULICIA.— Dana. 
Non-gemmate Caryophyllidm, attached, quite small and sub- 
cylindrical; polyps like those of the Caryophyllias. Coralla 
fragile and delicate, exterior not striate ; lamellee inciso-denticu- 
late ; cell shallow and sometimes scarcely at all excavate. 
CuLiciA STELLATA (Dana). — Quite simple, cylindrical, nearly 3 lines high, 
and li broad ; pale-ochreous in color, tentacles numerous and sub equal, Co- 
rallum with the margin thin and entire ; cell rather deep ; lamellae 24 in num- 
