TRIBE II. CARYOPHYLLACEA. 
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inent on the exterior; the lateral surface of the calicle hence smooth, except 
the twelve large carinating lamellae. Barbadoes, West Indies. Plate 27, 
fig. 9, calicle, natural size ; 9 a, transverse section, showing profile of larger 
and smaller lamellae. 
Genus YIIL— DENDEOPPIYLLIA.— Blainville. 
Aggregato-gemmate, patrio-ramose, arborescent; polyp^niouths 
long exsert. Coralla subcellular; calicles cylindrical; lamellae 
included, unequal ; cell deep, broad at bottom ; exterior smooth 
or fine striate. 
1. Dendrophyllta ramea [Linn.) Blainville. — Large arborescent, sorne» 
times 5 feet in heigiit ; branches long and terete, branchlets 4 to 5 lines thick 
at summit. Corallum throughout, finely undulato-striate ; calicles 3 to 5 lines 
broad, and 4 to 8 long, rather shallow. 
Mediterranean ; Cape Negro, coast of Africa. Madeira. — Exp. Exp. 
2. Dendrophyllia micrantha [Elirenberg,) Dana. — Resembling the ra- 
mea in habit. Corallum with the calicles more crowded, branches smaller 
(2^ to 3 lines), cells deeper, interstices more porous. 
3. Dendrophyllia nigrescens [Dana]. — -Arborescent, and 3 feet high, 
branches long, and nearly in a single plane; almost black, with the mouths of 
the polyps long exsert, green and radiately striate at summit, with a brown 
margin; tentacles pale-brownish. Corallum with scattered pores over the 
surface, and not striate, calicles cylindrical or subturbinate, nearly 3 lines 
broad, and 3 to 4 lines long, rather fragile, cells deep. 
Plate 27, fig. 1, branch, natural size ; 1 rr, animal enlarged ; 1 &, tentacle ; 
1 c, part of branch near extremity, showing the surface and a calicle ; I c/, ver- 
tical section of a calicle; 1 e, transverse section, near base of zoophyte; 1 /, 
ditto, near apex. — Feejee Islands. — Exp. Exp. 
4. Dendrophyllia aurantiaca (Qwoy ^ G ay mar d^) Dana. — Low, subra- 
mose; orange. Corallum finely striate, strise denticulate, calicles i an inch 
broad, cylindrical or a little elliptic, lamellae alternately large and small, some- 
w'hat denticulate. 
New Holland, at Port Royal George, and Port Jackson. — QuoyS^'- Gaymard. 
5. Dendrophyllia coccinea [H. ^ Ehrenberg,) Dana. — Low subramose 
(Ir^ inches high), yellowish-orange, polyps large, with 18 to 20 tentacles. Co- 
rallum finely striate, calicles cylindrical, unequal, aperture angular, nearly | 
inch broad. 
