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TRIBE II.~CARYOPHYLLACEA. 
3. Cartophyllia flexuosa (Z»a7?iarc^).— Cespitose, branches cylindrical, 
3 to 4 lines thick, flexuous and crowded, often coalescent. Corallum with the 
calicles striate, lamellae unequal, 8 to 12 larger, 3-5 intermediate smaller. 
Plate 27, fig. 5, part of corallum, natural size. — West Indies (.^). 
4. Cartophyllia arbuscula (Lesueur). — Small, loosely ramose and sub- 
arborescent ; branches divaricate and often flexuous, cylindrical, li to 2 lines 
thick ; polyps with 30 to 32 tentacles, tentacles conical, in two series, rufous 
and greenish, with a white spot at apex. Corallum faint striate ; calicles den- 
ticulate at the margin, larger lamellee alternate. 
Plate 27, fig. 7, corallum, natural size ; also fig. 24, p. 62. — St. Thomas, 
West Indies. — Lesueur, 
5. Cartophyllia cornigera {Lamarck). — Very large, loosely ramose and 
arborescent ; branches often f of an inch thick, branchlets subcylindrical, 4 to 
8 lines thick, and 1 to 3 inches long ; polyps straw-yellow. Corallum striate 
and often undulate, margin of the calicles uneven. 
Mediterranean Sea, near Marseilles, from a depth of 150 fathoms — Marsilli. 
6. Cartophyllia anthophyllum. — Cumulato-fasciculate, polyps long 
turbinate ; branchlets often 3 inches long, ^ an inch wide at top, and very 
much attenuated below. Corallum with the surface obsoletely striate, and 
somewhat undulate. 
East Indies. — Lamarck. 
Appendix. — The following species have been observed only 
in the simple state, and may or may not be budding species. 
C. soLiTARiA {Lesueur). — Cylindrical, three to four lines high, and scarcely 
three lines broad ; tentacles twenty-two in number, in two series, diaphanous, 
dotted with white. Calicle circular, margin entire or nearly so, above slightly 
striate v/ithout; fifteen to sixteen larger lamellae alternating with smaller. 
Guadaloupe, West Indies (Lesueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., i, 179, pi. 8, 
fig. 10 ; Mem. du Mus., vi, 273, pi. 15, fig. 1 ; Lamk., 2d ed., ii, 350, No. 6 a.). 
C. POciLLUM {Dana). — Turbinato-cylindrical, four and a half lines broad 
at top, and three high ; exterior striate half way to the base and granuloso- 
seabrous, lamello-striae nearly equal ; twelve lamellae larger, very broad and 
exsert, rounded above, granulous ; three intermediate smaller, and one-half 
narrower. West Indies. Plate 27, fig. 8, natural size. 
C. Dii.ATATA {Dana). — Turbinato-cylindrical, three lines high, and the 
same in breadth at summit ; twelve lamellae larger, quite broad, subacute at 
apex, a little exsert, and very prominent on the exterior half way to the base ; 
the intermediate three, much narrower, nearly equal, and scarcely at all prom- 
