30 DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW GENUs oF PoLyPr. [Feb. 11, 
MorcuHEeLLANA. 
The coral subclavate, coriaceous, subealcareous, and loosely cellular 
within; the stem subcylindrical, elongate, hard, coriaceous, and mi- 
nutely granular on the surface. 
The head formed of numerous, irregularly dispersed, short-lobed 
prominences, which are covered at the end with diverging conical 
prominent polype-cells,—the lobes and cells being strengthened with 
superficial fusiform spicules, slightly covered with the skin of the 
coral; the polypes entirely retractile. 
