itly •■"'• Small oval <>r liiitirular spicules are found on the polyp 



dier "uu-s in the tentacles I h< ie intergrade with the club-stars, many of which 

 are found in the polyp walk 



ibed is .1 coral red. The exterior of the a\is is olive and 

 the int< llow and white Other specimens are yellow. 



*, ' distribu tion. I 'he I i dit) is the India n Ocean li has also been 



rted, probabl) >usly, from the West fndies. It seems to have a wide range in the 



ally dichromatic, red and yellow colonies of apparently the same age 

 and from i tion being found. Other specimens are nearly white, in alcohol. Siill 



othi • and some are deep crimson. 



A specimen 5 cm. long from station 164 is found with others much larger. It 



ally disposed and resembles some of the so-called s] ribed as 



by previous writers. This intergrades completely with typical specimens as described above, 



and from the same station, Hiere seems no doubt that a number ol specific descriptions have 



on young specimens. 



2. Juncella gemmacea (Valenciennes Plate IV, figs. 1, \a. 



tacea Valenciennes. Manuscript in coll. of Museum. Paris, fide VVright and 



ncella vimen Valencienm XI.I. [856, p. 1 | 



Verrucella gemmacea Milne Edwards et Haime. Histoin Naturelle des Coralliain I > 



Juncella gemmacea Kölliker. Icones Histiologicx, [865, p. 140. 

 Ellisella gemmacea Gray. Catalogue Lithophytes British Museum. 1870, p. - 

 Jun ■ 1 Klunzinger. Corallenthiere dos Rothen Meeres, I. 70. p. 53. 



Jun tmacea Studer. Monatsbericht der Königl. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 



>9- 

 Juncella gemmacea Ridley. Collection II. M. S. Alert, Alcyonaria, 1884, p. 346. 

 Juncella gemmacea Wright and Studer, Challenger Reports, the Alcyonaria, [889, p. [58. 

 Juncella gemmacea • >n and Henderson. Ceylon Pearl Oystei Report, Alcyonaria, 



p. 313. 



5. Anchorag< off Pulu Jedan, East coast of Aru Lslands. 13 meters. 

 ! '. 10 52'.4 S., 123 1 . 1 E. 34 mct> 



ilony subflabellate in form, attaining a height of 25.5 cm. The firsl forking occurs 

 4.5 cm. the Kas- Each of the resulting branches forks about 3.5 cm. above its origin. 



The wb on) is regularly dichotomous in its branching, branchings of the to ,h order being 



attained. The average distance between forkings is perhaps 2 cm., although there is considerable 



ition in this respect. As in many other ca f dichotomous branching it is possible t>> 



branchlets as all springing from one side of a sinuous branch. This is truc in some 

 hut not all of the brand: I writer thinks it possible that Juncella racemosa Wright and 

 Studi Report, p. 159) is this species, and that these authors have taken this view 



what I e to be dichotomous branching. 



A thi item is devoid of coenenchyma, the axis being 3.2 mm. in 



