652 ZOOPHYTES. 



Gorg. rosea, Lamarck, ii. 494, No. 20. 



Marsilli, Lith. quatrieme (?), tab. 19, fig. 83; from near Marseilles, in forty fathoms 

 water, and having the polyps scattered ; colour red ; greatest height two feet, and very 

 slender; thickness at base hardly an eighth of an inch. 



, Lamouroux, Pol. flex., 401 ; Encyc., 441. 



Gorgonia Ceratophyta (?), Linn., ed. xii., 1290, and Pallas, Zooph., 117 ; Esper, ii. 

 78, tab. 19. 



(?), Ehrenberg, G. Ixxxiv., sp. 8 ; " 9" lata, 8" alta, roseo aut cinnabarino-pur- 



purea, valde gracilis, depressa, laxe dichotomo-rarnulosa, virgato-divaricata, ramis seta- 

 oeis, supra -'" fere crassis, apice subverrucosis, polypis niveis." 



15. G. PTEROGORGIA FUSCO-PURPUREA. (Ehrenberg.} Dana. Dark 

 brownish-purple, dichotomously branched, flabellate ; branchlets pa- 

 rallel, compressed, the summit branchlets nearly terete (three-fourths 

 of a line thick), flexuous at base, long before branching, and virgate; 

 polyps forming two lateral bands. 



G.fusco-purpurea, Ehrenberg, op. cit., G. Ixxxiv., sp. 7. 



16. G. PTEROGORGIA SULCIFERA. Reddish-yellow; very tall, and 

 branching in a plane; branchlets mostly secund, ascending, obsoletely 

 verrucose, every where with a medial sulcus; cortex thin. 



Indian Ocean. 



Gorg. sulcifera, Lamk., ii. 497, No. 30. Gorg. suberosa (?), Esper, Fortsetz., i. 170, 



, Lamour., Pol. flex., 412 ; Encyc., tab. 49. 



444. 



17. G. PTEROGORGIA PECTINATA. Reddish; one to one and a half 

 feet high and broad ; stem dichotomising and bearing above nearly 

 simple erect branchlets, long and pectinately arranged, one and a 

 half lines thick, nearly terete, subverrucose ; polyps sublateral, with 

 a flat medial area naked. 



The East Indies. Lamarck. 



Seba, Thes. iii., tab. 105, fig. 1 a. Gorgonia pectinata, Lamk., ii. 498, 



Gorgoniapectinata,Gmel.,Syst. Nat., 3808. No. 31. 



, Pallas, Zooph., 179. , Lamour., Pol. flex., 416; Encyc., 



, Ellis and Solander, 85. 446. 



18. G. PTEROGORGIA OCHROSTOMA. (Ehrenberg.) Dana. Rose-red, 

 with the margin yellow ; very densely branched; branchlets flexuous, 

 not coalescing, subflabellate, rather rigid, branchlets compressed, 

 shorter, a little broader, and with somewhat larger polyps than in the 

 G. fldbellum. 



Gorg. ochrostoma, Ehrenb., G. Ixxxiv., sp. 2. 



