Simpson — A Revision of the Gorgoncllidae. 69 



" The polyps are irregularly disposed in a ilouble row on each side of 

 the colony ; there is a median bare space on each side of the two flattened 

 faces. The verrucae are unequal in height, and stand at right angles to the 

 colony ; they are conical in shape ; the summit has a small opening which 

 shows a radiated structure." 



Duchassaing and Michelntti had, however, only a fragment devoid of 

 base; the breadth was 5-.5 mms., including the verrucae, the longest of which 

 were two mms. in height. 



2. Coral simple, rigid ; axis cylindrical, yellowish, slender ; bark cretaceous, 

 white ; cells irregularly disposed in a double row on each edge of the stem, 

 unequal; some twice as large as the others, smooth, terminal, small, and 

 radiated ; lateral area flat and naked, with a central groove. 



ioca^i^,— Island of St. CroLx (West Indies). 



Juncella funiculina. 



Juncdla funiculina Duch. and Mich., v., p. 22, PL vii., ligs. 9 and 8. 



Colony simple, flexible; polyps in a single series on two sides, small, 

 adpressed to the stem, and directed upwards ; oval opening small, with a 

 radiate structure ; coenenchyma thin, white ; axis yellowish. 



Local ity. — Guadalo upe. 



Juncella barbadensis. 



Juncella barbadensis Duch. and ilich., p. 22, PI. v., figs. 5 and 6. 



Colony attached, simple, filiform, white; polyps elongated with club- 

 shaped spicules ; verrucae in a single series on each side ; there is a distinct 

 median groove on each liare space. It is larger and ni(in> robust tliaii 

 J. funiculiTui ; the verrucae are larger. 



Localities. — Barbadoes and Guadaloupe. 



Juncella calyculata. 



Gorgonia calyculata Ellis and Solander, vi., p. 9-5. 

 Juncella calyculata Valenciennes, xlvi. 

 Gorgonella calycnlnta KoUiker, xxiii., p. 140. 

 MHsella calyculata Gray, ii., p. 26. 

 Ellis and Solander's description is as follows :— 



This Gorgon grows in a sub-divided order, having erect, thick branches 

 with truncated papillae. The flesh is ash-coloured without, and purple on the 

 inside, furnished with large, cup-shajjcd mouths, dispo.sed close together in a 

 (|uincunx order, and looking upwards, having polyps wiih eight fringed 

 claws extending themselves from them. TIh; bono is of a dark-brown 



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