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ZOOPHYTES. 



cens, flabellata, ramosissima, subreticu- 

 lata, ramulis tenuissimis, laxis, flexuosis, 

 verrucis '" longis et |'" latis ;" more 



slender than the papillosa, with thinner 

 cortex. Op. cit., G. Ixxxii., sp. 11. 



35. GORGONIA GRANULATA. (Ehrenberg. ) Yellowish; flabellate, 

 higher than broad (nine inches by four), much branched, subreticu- 

 late, slender, branches fragile, branchlets three-fourths of a line thick, 

 verrucose; verruca? one-third of a line broad, and one-fourth high ; 

 axis fuscous. 



Eunicea gramilata, Ehrenberg, op. cit., Gen. Ixxxii., sp. 9. 



36. GORGONIA FLEXUOSA. (Lamarck.} Orange; flabellate, much 

 branched, branches and branchlets dichotomously divaricate, flexuous, 

 remotely coalescing, verrucose. 



Indian Ocean. Esper. Lamarck. 



Esper's figure (tab. 44), to which Lamarck refers, represents an 

 irregularly branched frond, with branches spreading widely and 

 irregularly bent, and the branchlets coalescing at intervals of a half to 

 two inches, leaving large open spaces. 



A specimen closely resembling Esper's figure was obtained and 

 figured by the author, at the Kingsmill Islands, and is represented on 

 plate 60, fig. 2. The coalescence is rather less frequent than is 

 represented by Esper, but the flexuous irregular branching is similar. 

 The specimen was of a deep crimson colour, ten inches broad, and 

 six high. The polyps were ochreous yellow, with the tentacles dis- 

 tinctly fringed (fig. 2 a), and the verructe are but little prominent. 



Gorgonia flexuosa, Lamk., ii. 490, No. 8. 



, Esper, Fortsetz. i. 161, tab. 44. 



Ehrenberg makes of Esper's figure a distinct 

 species, considering it the rcticulum of 

 Pallas ; but his description does not agree 

 with the figure, nor with Pallas's descrip- 

 tion : "Octopollicaris,violaceo-incarnata, 

 4" alta, densissime ramulosa, fruticulosa, 

 irregulariter flabellata, parva, subtilissimfe 

 pruinosa, nee furfuracea, ramulis saepe 

 oppositis, flexuosis, omnibus literis, ra- 

 mulosis, summis apicibus distiche, mediis 

 ubique, polypiferis, ?'" latis et altis; axe 

 corneo, fusco" (Eunicea reliculum, Eh- 

 renb., G. Ixxxii., sp. 6). 



Tab. 79, of Rumphius, Amb., vi. 206, may 

 be this species ; the figure is fourteen 

 inches high by twelve broad. 



The Gorgonia wnbratica of Esper, has 

 something of the habit of the jlexuosa; 

 the figure is brownish-ash, a little higher 

 than broad, openly branched, with no 

 midrib, the branches more ascending, 

 sparingly coalescenf, a little compressed, 

 hardly a line wide, and every where 

 crovvdedly short verrucose. Esper's spe- 

 cimen was from the East Indies. It has 



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some resemblance to the verrucosa, but 

 is more coalescent. Euniccea umhralica, 

 Ehrenberg, op. cit., Gen. Ixxxii., sp. 10. 



