26 ELLISELLAD.E. 



106. EUisella coccinea, B.M. 



Coral branched ; branches very long, virgate, bright scarlet. 



EUisella coccinea, Grm/, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 287 ; 1859, p. 481. 

 Gorgouia elougata, Ullis ^ Solander, Zuoph. p. 96 ? 



Hah. West Indies, 



107. EUisella gemmacea. 



Coral branched, brownish yellow ; branches numerous, cylindrical, 

 distantly dichotomous ; terminal branchlets elongate; bark very 

 friable ; polype-cells very jiromineut, rounded and bent towards the 

 stem, 



Gorgouia gemmacea, Valenc. MS. Mus. Paris. 



Verrucella gemmacea, Milne-Edw. ^- Haime, Corall. i. p. 185, t. B". f. 7. 



Junceella gemmacea, Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 140, 1. 14. f. 4. 



Hah. Red Sea, 



108. EUisella calyculata. 



Junceella calyculata, Valenc. (uot described). 

 Gorgonella calyculata, Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 140. 



Hah. ? 



47. CTENOCELLA. 



Coral branched, fan-like, expanded in a plane ; branches with a 

 series of virgate branchlets on the upperside, lateral line well marked 

 but narrow, 



Ctenocella, Valeric. ; Milne-Edw. 8,' Haime, Corall. i. p. 185. 



EUisella § ***, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 287. 



109. Ctenocella pectinata. B.M. 



Coral round ; branchlets pectinate, all on the upperside of the 

 branches, ascending, very long, acute. The lateral lines moderately 

 distinct and deep. 



Seba, Thes. iii. 1. 105. f. la (central figure, good). 



Gorgouia pectinata, Pallas, Zooph. p. 179 ; Solander Sf Ellis, Zooph. 



p. 179 ; Lamk. Hist. A. s. V. ii. p. 320 ; Lamx. Polyp. Flex. p. 416, 

 Gorgonella pectinata, Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 140, 1. 18. f. 41. 

 EUisella pectinata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 287 ; 1859, p. 481. 

 Ctenocella pectinata, Valenc. Co7nptes Rendiis, 1855, xli., Ann. Sf May. 



Nat. Hist. 1855, xvi. p. 182 ; Milne-Edw. Corall. i. p. 185, 

 Corail pectine, Pose, Vers, iii. p. 23. 

 I'terogorgia pectinata, Dana, Eip. p. 652. n. 17. 



Uah. India ; China. 



48. GORGONELLA. 



Coral flabellate, branched ; branches subfurcate, flexuose, often 

 anastomosing. Axis smooth, polished ; base white, coral-like ; upper 

 part rod-like, solid ; branchlets white, liexible. Bark when dry gra- 

 nular, minutely punctate, thin, with a narrow continuous lateral 



