Catalogue of lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum . nes on the bark seen in S. funi-culina.—Duchassaing. 138. Scirpearia moniliformis. Coral simple, filiform, erect; cells prominent, turbinate, alternateor scattered ; apex umbilicate, subcylindrical; bark Avhite, very thin,membranous. Gorgonia moniliformis, Lamk. Mem. n. 24. Hah. Australia (lower part only known). 63. RAYNERELLA. Coral much branched, fan-shaped, expanded in a plane ; branchesand branchlets pinnate ; branches diverging, subcylindrical, slender,nearly of a uniform size ; branchlets opposite or alte
Catalogue of lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum . nes on the bark seen in S. funi-culina.—Duchassaing. 138. Scirpearia moniliformis. Coral simple, filiform, erect; cells prominent, turbinate, alternateor scattered ; apex umbilicate, subcylindrical; bark Avhite, very thin,membranous. Gorgonia moniliformis, Lamk. Mem. n. 24. Hah. Australia (lower part only known). 63. RAYNERELLA. Coral much branched, fan-shaped, expanded in a plane ; branchesand branchlets pinnate ; branches diverging, subcylindrical, slender,nearly of a uniform size ; branchlets opposite or alternate, thin, with an even, very slightly corrugated surface ; internallyfinely granular. Polyjie-cells prominent, roundish, close together,diverging irregularly on all sides of the slender branches; apexrather conical, contracted, with a central dot. Axis calcareous, hard,white, with well-marked longitudinal grooves. Rayuerella, Gray, Ann. 8)- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1869, iii. p. 22. 139. Raynerella orange-yellow; branches and branchlets diverging, pin-. JyininrrcUd iiKyiitdut. 40 CALLIQORGIAD.^. nate ; branchlets ending in a broader tubercle, simple, rarelyforked. Sebn, Thes. iii. f. 9 ? Brandella intricata, Gray, I. c. p. 23. Hub. Basss Strait, Dewi Reef (Rayner). ** Polype-cells NICELLA. Coral fan-like, on one plane, branched; branches forked, ratherdiverging. Bark smooth, brown. Polype-cells cylindrical, trun-cated, diverging from the stem at nearly right angles, mouth calcareous, white, solid. Scirpearia, § 2, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 481. 140. Mcella mauritiana. Coral fan-like, dichotomously branched ; stem cylindrical, longi-tudinally striated; bark thin, pale brown; cells elongate, cylindrical, Fio. 12.
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