124 Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fleshy Ahyonoid Corals. 



* Coral fleshy. 



1. Alcyoniwm palmatum y Pallas. (A. exos, Gmelin, Esper, t. 2 ; 



Ellis, Phil. Trans. 1763, t. 20. f. 9. Lohularia palmata, 

 Lamk. L. diyitata, Chiaje.) 

 Hab. Mediterranean. B.M. 



2. Ahyonium Sarsii. (A.jxxlmatum, var. ? Sars, Kolliker, Icon. 



Hist. 132.) 

 Hab. North Sea. 



3. Ahyonium aurantium, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 22. 



f. 16-18. {Lobularia aurantiaca, Lamk.) 

 Hab. New Zealand. B.M. 



** Cored crustaceous. 



4. Ahyonium stellatum, M.-Edw. Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 1835, 1. 16 ; 



Corall. i. 116, t. la. f. 2. 

 Hab. Coast of France. 



2. Danella. 



Coral soft ; stem thick, barren, not dilated at the base ; 

 branches slender, cylindrical, ascending. Polypes small, on the 

 branches ; spicules very abundant in all parts of the stem. 



* Coral coriaceous, branches blunt. 



1. Danella conferta. {Ahyonium eonfertum, Dana, Zooph. 



t. 57. f. 7.) 

 Hab. Feejee Islands. 



** Cored soft, branches acute. 



2. Danella flexibilis. (Ahyonium Jlexibile, Quoy & Gaim.) 

 Hab. Vanikoro. 



3. Danella feqeensis. (Ahyonium Jlexibile, var., Dana, Zooph. 



t. 57. f. 6.) 

 Hab. Feejee Islands (Dana). 



3. Amocella. 



Coral fleshy, smooth, arising from a more or less extended, 

 compressed, horizontal base, with thick, erect, smooth, sterile 

 stems divided above into lobes or branches, covered on all 

 sides with retractile polypes. 



1. Amocella paueiflora , Savigny, Egypte, t. 1. f. 8. (Lobularia 

 pauciflora , Ehrcnb. Ammothoa virescens } part., Audouin. 

 Ahyonium paucijlora, Dana.) 

 Hab. Red Sea. 



