TRIBE II. CARYOPHYLLACEA. 
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ber, 6 broader than the others, and above entire, having- the arrangement and 
appearance of a star, with 3 smaller intermediate delicately incised. 
Plate 28, fig. 5, calicles scattered over dead coral, natural size ; 5 a, animal 
enlarged ; 5 6, tentacle enlarged ; 5 c, calicle enlarged ; 5 d, two of the lamellae 
enlarged. — Singapore. — Exp. Exp. 
CuLiciA TENELLA {Dana). — Quite simple, cylindrical, 2 lines high and H 
broad. Corallum with a very thin and acute margin ; cells rather deep ; la- 
mellae 24, subequal, the larger for the most part entire, but incised at apex 
and at base, the smaller intermediate incised. 
Plate 28, fig. 6, calicle enlarged ; 6 a, natural size ; 6 &, three of the lamellae 
enlarged. — Port Jackson, New Plollarid, attached to the base of a Melitaea. — - 
Exp. Exp. 
CuLiciA TRUNCATA (Dana). — Quite simple, nearly cylindrical or subtur- 
binate, IJ lines high and as many in breadth. Corallum plane at top, cell not 
excavate, but filled with the minutely laciniate lamellae, which are twenty-four 
in number, large and small alternate. 
Plate 28, fig. 7, calicle enlarged ; 7 a, same, natural size.— The Feejee Isl- 
ands, attached to the dead part of an Echinopora. — Exp. Exp, 
Genus VII.— CAKYOPHYLLIA.—Lamarck. 
Attached Caryopliyllidie with segregate growth and gemma- 
tion ; polyps nsually cylindrical, mouth long exsert, tentacles 
numerous. Coralla caliculato-ramose ; alive only at the tips of 
the branches, and in this part usually striate, with the striae 
equalling the lamellae in number ; but below, where dead, the 
striae becoming obsolete. 
1. Caryophyllia cespitosa {Lamarck). Elongate cylindrical stems, 
nearly erect and crowdedly fasciculate, scarcely 2 lines in diameter ; polyps 
bright orange. Corallum with the branches striate, slightly scabrous, some- 
times coalescing ; cells concave ; lamellss subequal. 
The Mediterranean Sea ; ^gean Sea, where, according to E. Forbes, it 
occurs in water not exceeding six or eight feet in depth, 
2. Caryophyllia conferta {Dana ). — Short cespitose, come what convex, 
with the branches flexuous and much crowded, nearly 2 lines in diameter, 
alive for 2 lines. Corallum with the calicles very finely striate, about 36 sub- 
equal lamellsB, alternately larger, a very little exsert. 
Plate 27, fig. 6, part of corallum, natural size. 
