TRIBE II. — -CARYOPHYLLACEA, 
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4. OcuLiNA axiIj-lauts (Ellis,) Lamarck. — Ramose, dichotomous ; branches 
short, divaricate; polyps distant, large, terminal and axillary. Corallum with 
turbinate calicles, 3 to 4 lines in diameter, lamellae a little exsert, even. 
East Indies. — Lamarck. 
5. OcuLiNA VARicosA (Lcsucur). — Arborescent, a foot high, loosely ra- 
mose ; branchlets long and often divaricate. Corallum with the calicles every 
where, quite to the apex, at right angles with the axis of the branch, short, 1|- 
lines broad at top, the base much inflated or hemispherical; lamellae about 24 
in number, subequal and even; a little exsert. 
Figure 28, page 67 of Introduction to Report. — West Indies, St. Thomas. — 
Lesueur. 
6. OcuLiNA ocuLATA. — Very ramose, branches tortuous, implicate and 
much coalescing. Corallum with scattered calicles, mostly obsolescent, but 
towards the extremities of the branchlets prominent and cylindrical, 1 to ll- 
lines broad, lamellae slightly exsert, or not all so. 
West Indies. 
7. OcuLiNA FALLENS (Ehrcnherg ). — Arborescent, (U feet high,) loosely 
ramose, sometimes coalescing ; stem 6 to 8 inches thick, branches and branch- 
lets slender, attenuate, often 2 to 4 inches long, and above i of an inch thick. 
Corallum with prominent calicles, about li lines broad ; towards the summits 
oblique, with an elliptical aperture, and but little prominent; below erect and 
circular, and surrounded at base with a tumid elevation, which is faintly ra- 
diate-striate. 
Figure 29, page 57 of Introduction to Report. — West Indies, St. Thomas.— 
Ehrenherg. 
8. OcuLiNA viRGiNEA (LinncRus,) Blainville. — Ramose, branches slender 
(1 to 3 lines in diameter), divaricate and tortuous. Corallum with the calicles 
1 to Ig lines broad, often alternately arranged, every where even to the sum- 
mits of the branches, prominent and erect; lamellae nearly equal, a little exsert. 
The Mediterranean Sea, Esper. — Off Marseilles, at a depth of 150 fathoms, 
Marsilli. 
9. OcuLiNA DIFFUSA (Lamarck). — Small, much branched, branches divari- 
cate, and often coalescing, upper branchlets -i to 1 inch long, one-tenth of an 
inch thick. Corallum with the calicles a little prominent, 1 line broad, rather 
numerous, below, erect, with the base around radiately striate, above, very ob- 
lique, smaller and elliptical ; lamellae a little exsert, even. 
West Indies. — Maugtr, Lesueur. 
