130 Dr. J. E. Gray oyi the Fleshy Alcyonoid Corals. 



4. MOECHELLANA, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1862, p. 30. 



Coral clavate ; stem thick, contracted below ; outer surface 

 coriaceous, granular ; skin of branches thin, studded with 

 large, opaque, fusiform spicules. Upper part divided into 

 short, conical, spreading branches, closely covered with sub- 

 cylindrical incurved polype-cells. 



Morchellana sjjmulosa.j Gray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 31, fig. at 

 page 30. 

 Hab. Indian Ocean. B.M. 



See Alcyonium sjjongiosum^ Esper, Zooph. t. 3. Ammoihea 

 plialloides, Lamk. Figured from a dry specimen. 



c. Coral soft, memhranaceous, cellular, smooth, with the polypes at the 

 ends of the fleahx] branches. Polypes partly retractile, leaving a 

 sxihspheincal terminal head to the hranchlets j a few imbedded, 

 spicules near the mouth and in the tentacles. Lower part of the 

 coral simple or retractile into a tubular spinulose sheath. 



Fam. 11. Lemnaliadae. 



Coral simple at the base ; stem formed of the clustered 

 cylindrical tubular bodies of the polypes 5 outer surface smooth, 

 without spicules. 



Known from NepJithyadee by the polype-cell being pedi- 

 celled, and the stem and branches of the coral not being co- 

 vered with superficial fusiform spicules. 



1. Lemnalia. 



Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. 442. 



Coral-stem forming an expanded creeping base. Polype- 

 cells racemose. 



1. Lemnalia Juhesii, Gray, /. c. fig. 1. 

 Hah. ? 



2. Lemnalia terminaUs. [Alcyonium fer?n?nrt/e, Quoy & Gaim. 



Voy. Astrol. t. 23. f. 15-17.) 

 Stem unknown. Spicules fusiform, smootli, small, flat, 

 irregular-shaped (Quoy). 

 tiah, ? 



3. Lemnalia nitida. [Ammothea nitida, Vcrrill, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool. 39.) 

 Hah. Zanzibar (Verrill). Stems clustered. 



2. Verrilliana. 

 Coral soft, branched. Stem tapering, cylindrical, longi- 



