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Sufficiently so to render it in any way allied to the latter. The length of the eorallum 
^ould also indicate C. conifolUs, Hall,* as an ally, but no indication of the epithecal 
s^elliugg of the latter occur in our form. 
Loc. Itegan’s, Northern Railway, thirty-one miles from Townsville. (U. L. Jack.') 
Genus— CTATROPnTLLUM, GolJfuss, 1826. 
(Petrefacta GermaniEe, i., I Tlieil, ii. 54.) 
CyATnornrLLUM, sp. ind., PI. 3, figs. 11, 12. 
Obs. A few' turbinate corals are associated with the more numerous specimens 
the last species, which appear referable to the genus OpathopJiyllum. The small 
Ufflouiit of material, however, for investigation, and the large number of species of this 
S®uus at present known, render the task of identification difficult. 
The complete eorallum is unknown, but it was short and conical, or turbinate, with 
Numerous septa — at least fifty-four in number. They arc long and almost straight, every 
uiuate one extending to the centre of the caliee, the others not beyond the outer 
csicular zone; the longer or jirimary septa are more or less confusedly intermingled or 
j ’fiutly twisted at the centre, giving rise to a loosely vesicular structure. The intersoptal 
oouli are filled with large vesicles, forming an outer vesicular zone, extending inwards 
quite half the wddth of the eorallum. The fossula is apparently absent. 
This species is evidently of the same type of growth as C. virgatuin, Hiudo,'!' and 
®^uy possibly be it, as the number of septa closely correspond. 
-^uc. llegan’s. Northern Railway. (.B. i. Jack.) 
^ lu Leichhardt’s “Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, the Rev. 
^ Clarke described a coral from the Burdekin Limestone § as CyathopTiyllim Leich- 
His description is here appended, but unfortunately little or nothing can be 
from a systematic point of view. The name might be deleted with 
antage to Australian Palmontology. The description is as follows : — 
0 “ The most conspicuous fossil is a coral which appears to belong to the family of 
^J'athophylli^jg_ The genus is perhaps new, but this the want of specimens with w'hich 
u '^uuapare it does not allow me the means of verifying. It may, however, be classed 
'■uvisionally as Cyatlwphylhm, to which in many respects it bears a great resemblance, 
pi p. ” Cells concavely cylindrical, not dichotomous (thus distinguished from Caryo- 
steh grouped but separate, laterally if at all proliferous. Corallum beautifully 
^ ular, formed by 30-35 slightly spirally curving or regular radiating lamellse, w'hich 
re^r ^ ^ central point or overlap on a latitudinal axial line, and are divided by 
oj^ or outwardly convex and upwardly oblique dissepiments, which become 
indistinct or obsolete near the centre, thus not assuming the usual charac- 
® ic^of Cyathophyllum but rather one of Strombodes. 
®T)a ®'rrface longitudinally striated, the cellular structure being hidden in calcareous 
occ^' ■ formed by the coalescing lamellse, which, at the extremities, seem to be 
^^asionally denticulated owing to the matrix interrupting their passage to the edge. 
resembles what takes place in some Astrseidoe. 
the interior has more the features of Acervularia than Cyathophyllum, but 
i^cTat^^^ Patches of broken transverse septa in the rock which exhibit the features of 
er.” 
t Illustrations of Devonian Dossils, 1876, t. .S, f. 3*9. 
eul. Mag., 1800, vii. (3), p. 194, t. 8, f. 1 a, 6. ^ j • 
Overland Expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington durin„ t e 
S X An LoiMon, 1817), p. 212. 
About Lat. 19° 58' 11" S.” [Prob.ably Birrdekin Downs. R.L.J.) 
