653 ZOOPHYTES. 



branchlets two-thirds to one line thick, subterete; everywhere short 

 verrucose. 



The East Indies. 



The frond is without any prominent midrib; the numerous branches 

 are directed upward and outward, and lie at nearly even distances 

 from one another, though somewhat flexuous and irregular ; and are 

 much united by branchlets, many of which are free. Coalescence 

 takes place at intervals of one-fourth to two inches. 



Ffutex lignosus, planus, instar ventilabri, Gorgonia umbraculum, Ellis and Solander.v 



ramulis inter se concrctis crusta tartarea 80, tub. 10. 



rubra. Cape of Good Hope and African , Lamk., 2d ed., ii. 489, No. 4. 



Coast. Seba, Thes. iii., tab. 107, No. 6. , Lamour., Exp. Meth., 34, tab. 10. 



29. GORGONIA CANCELLATA. (Dana.} Whitish; flabellate, nearly 

 circular, very much branched throughout, for the most part coalescent. 

 ribbed with nearly straight parallel branches, which are one-fourth to 

 one-third of an inch apart, and are united at intervals of one-half to 

 two inches by flexuous branchlets; branches and branchlets one to 

 one and a half lines thick, every where small verrucose. 



A frond of this species, seen by the author, measured a fool in 

 height. The parallelism of the branches and the reticulation of the 

 whole by means of cross flexuous branchlets, but few of which are 

 free, are well represented by Esper. The branches in the specimen 

 were a little closer than in his figure, though otherwise similar. The 

 cortex is rather thick, and the verruca? are quite small and scattered 

 closely over the surface. The coalescence is rather more general, and 

 the branches and branchlets stouter and more even, than in the 

 umbraculum. 



Gorgonia psewlo-a>itipathes, Esper, Pflanz. Fortsetz., ii. 32, tab. 54; and Antipathd, 

 flabeUum, ii., Antip., tab. 1. 



30. GORGONIA VENUSTA. (Dana.) Red or ochreous ; flabellate and 

 much reticulate, spaces often three lines long, but usually very much 

 larger; branchlets terete, one line thick ; cortex thick, and throughout 

 entirely smooth; oscules scattered. 



East Indies. Esper. Isle of France. J. S. Phillips. 



Gorgonia sasappo, Esper, ii., tab. 9 A. The smooth branches and branchlets and 

 thick cortex are like those of the specimens examined by the author, in the collections of 

 J. S. Phillips, of Philadelphia; but the fronds are much more closely reticulate, though 

 very irregularly so. There is no proper midrib to the frond; and the stem at K 

 about one and a half lines thick. 



