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for though it has the typical clubs of S. glaucum , its large thickly warted spindles approach 
those of .S', trocheliophorum especially Marenzeller’s variety amboinense. The point is that the 
large spindles are relatively shorter than many of those in S. glaucum , and many have blunt not 
tapering ends. But the other features of the colony are nearer S. glaucum. We regard a relatively 
broad, somewhat lemon-like, crowdedly warted large spindle as characteristic of 5 . trocheliophorum. 
We cannot leave this species without noticing its variability, which Burchardt emphasised 
by establishing the varieties, pauperculum and amboinense. Two colonies may appear super¬ 
ficially different in colour, lobing of disc, retraction of autozooids, and length of stalk, and yet 
show precisely the same spiculation. 
Previously recorded from Red Sea, Amboina, Port Denison, East Australia, Torres Straits, 
Viti Islands, Tonga Islands, Maldives. 
4. Sarcophytum gracile Burchardt. 
For description see: E. BURCHARDT, Jenaische Denkschr. VIII, 1898, p. 673, 3 figs. 
Stat. 33. Bay of Pidjot, Lombok. 22 M. and less. Mud, coral and coral sand. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 144. Damar. 45 M. Coral bottom and Lithothamnion. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 213. Saleyer. Up to 36 M. Coral reef, mud and mud with sand. 3 Ex. 
The larger of two specimens has a disc 3.2 cm. in diameter borne by a cylindrical stalk 
5 cm. in height, with a diameter of about 9 mm. The colour is greyish-brown, and the texture 
rubberlike with a slightly gritty surface. 
The features of this species, well described by Burchardt, are : 
(1) the cylindrical unlobed disc, well-defined from the long cylindrical stalk; 
(2) the large closely set autozooids and numerous small siphonozooids ; 
(3) the presence of large branched coarsely warted, often bent, spindles in the stem ; 
(4) the occurrence of coarse warty, bent clubs and wavy narrow spindles with relatively few 
low warts. 
We find all these forms in our specimens, except the large warted bent clubs which 
are represented only by pseudo-clubs derivable from the coarse spindles by an expansion of one 
end. Several beautiful crosses occur. 
A specimen from Station 144 is slightly less typical in having some of the large branched 
spindles with predominantly simple warts, and in having very numerous wavy narrow spindles 
with low warts. 
Previously recorded from Amboina. 
5. Sarcophytum trocheliophorum Marenzeller. 
For descriptions see: 
MARENZELLER, fiber die Sarcophytum benannten Alcyoniiden, Zool. Jahrb. 1886, p. 359-62, 2 figs. 
BURCHARDT, Alcyonaceen von Thursday Island, Jenaische Denkschr. VIII, 1898, p. 679-82, 5 figs. 
Stat. 34. Labuan Pandan, Lombok. 18 M. Coral reef. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 37. Sailus Ketjil, Paternoster-islands. 2 7 M. and less. Coral and coral sand. 2 Ex. 
Stat. 47. Bay of Bima. Coral reef. 
Stat. 47a. Entrance Bay of Bima. 1 Ex. 
Stat. 53. Waingapu, Sumba. Reef. 1 Ex. 
