66 g ZOOPHYTES. 



coloured; low, and sparingly ramose in a plane; branches coarsely 

 nodulous, one to three lines thick; polyps few, very distant, tentacles 

 long firabriate, the papilla being capillary and recurved ; verruca? 

 irregularly tuberculiforrn, somewhat alternate, stout, suberose, above 

 obsolescent. 



Plate 59, fig. 3, natural size, polyps expanded ; 3 a, one of the polyps, 

 enlarged ; 3 b, a papilla, more enlarged. 



Feejee Islands, in ten fathoms. Exp. Exp. 



The specimen consists of a few simple branches, having the surface 

 rather distantly tuberculate, the rounded, suberose tubers being large 

 (two lines or more), and belonging to separate polyps. At the summits, 

 which are but a line thick for an inch or so, and pale flesh-coloured, 

 the verruca are small and short, and two to three lines apart. The 

 habit of the species is very peculiar, and may be the type of a new 

 genus, distinguished by the long fringe of papillae to the tentacles. 



NOTE. The Gorgonia nodulifera of Lamarck, appears to be near the above species. 

 It is thus described : " Rnmoso-paniculata, planulata, ramis ramulisquc alternis, noduli- 

 feris; carne aurantia, squamrnulosa ; nodulis alternis, albis, subspongiosis." Seas of 

 New Holland, Peron and Lesueur, 2d ed., ii. 496, No. 25 ; Lamouroux, Pol. flex., 416 ; 

 Encyc., 446. 



56. GORGONIA EXSERTA. (Ellis.) Whitish ; low, sparingly ramose ; 

 branches alternate, a line thick; polyps few, and three or four lines 

 remote, alternate; verruca tuberculiform, but little prominent, a line 

 broad ; axis corneous, fuscous. 



American seas. Ellis. 



This species has the distant polyps and habit of the trichostemma, 

 and the specimen figured by Ellis resembles much the extremities of 

 the branches in that species. 

 Gorgonia exserta, Ellis and Sol., 87, pi. figures 1, 2; Pol. flex., 408; Encyc., 



15, figs. 1,2. 443. 

 , Lamouroux, Exp. Meth., pi. 15, , Lamk., 3d ed., ii. 501, No. :r> /. 



C. Cortex (including the verruca? when present) exceeding half a line in thickm-s-;. 

 I. Surface smooth or very short vcrrucose* 



57. GORGONIA ANTIPATHES. Very large (three feet); paniculato- 

 ramose, branches terete; cortex thick, smooth; oscules large; axis 



* This division corresponds to the genus Plexaurn, of Lamouroux. The G. suflruti- 

 cosa (No. 52), G. spicifera (54), and probably also the ('.. ramulosa (53), arc near them 

 in habit. 



