26 ELLISELLAD^E. 



106. Ellisella coccinea. B.M. 



Coral branched ; branches very long, virgate, bright scarlet. 



Ellisella coccinea, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 287 j 1859, p. 481. 

 Gorgonia elongata, Ellis fy Solander, Zooph. p. 96 ? 



Hob. West Indies. 



107. Ellisella gemmacea. 



Coral branched, brownish yellow ; branches numerous, cylindrical, 

 distantly dichotomous ; terminal branchlets elongate; bark very 

 friable ; polype-cells very prominent, rounded and bent towards the 

 stem. 



Gorgonia gemmacea, Valenc. MS. Mus. Paris. 



Verrucella gemmacea, MUne-Edw. 8f Haime, Corall. i. p. 185, t. B 2 . f. 7. 



Junceella gemmacea, Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 140, 1. 14. f. 4. 



Hab. Red Sea. 



108. Ellisella calyculata. 



Junceella calyculata, Valenc. (not described). 

 Gorgonella calyculata, Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 140. 



Hab. ? 



47. CTENOCELLA. 



Coral branched, fan-like, expanded in a plane ; branches with a 

 series of virgate branchlets on the upperside, lateral line well marked 

 but narrow. 



Ctenocella, Valenc. ; MUne-Edw. 8f Haime, Corall. i. p. 185. 



Ellisella ***, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 287. 



109. Ctenocella pectinata. B.M. 



Coral round ; branchlets pectinate, all on the upperside of the 

 branches, ascending, very long, acute. The lateral lines moderately 

 distinct and deep. 



Seba, Thes. iii. 1. 105. f. la (central figure, good). 



Gorgonia pectinata, Pallas, Zooph. p. 179 j Solander fy Ellis, Zooph. 



p. 179 ; Lamk. Hist. A. s. V. ii. p. 320 j Lanix. Polyp. Flex. p. 416. 

 Gorgonella pectinata, Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 140, 1. 18. f. 41. 

 Ellisella pactinata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 287 ; 1859, p. 481. 

 Ctenocella pectinata, Valenc. Comptes Rendus, 1855, xli., Ann. fy May. 



Nat. Hist. 1855, xvi. p. 182 j MUne-Edw. Corall. i. p. 185. 

 Corail pectins', Bosc, Vers, iii. p. 23. 

 Pterogorgia pectinata, Dana, Exp. p. 652. n. 17. 



Hab. India; China. 



48. GORGONELLA. 



Coral flabellate, branched; branches subfurcate, flexuosc, often 

 anastomosing. Axis smooth, polished ; base white, coral-like ; upper 

 part rod-like, solid ; branchlets white, flexible. Bark when dry gra- 

 nular, minutely punctate, thin, with a narrow continuous lateral 



