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1. U. UMBRACULUM, Solandcr, Zooph. t. 10. 



2. U. GRANULATA, Espcr, Pflanzcnth. t. 4. 



4. Phenilia. 



Coral tree-like ; branches short, subquadrangular, divaricating, 

 sometimes coalescing, forming an irregular netted frond ; branchlet 

 subclavate. Bark granular ; lateral groove distinct, scarcely sunken. 

 Cells large, sunken, in two or three irregular rows on each side of the 

 branches. Axis solid, hard, calcareous, horn-coloured. 



1. Phenilia sanguinolenta. 



Coral yellowish ; branches flexuose, intertwined ; branchlets short, 

 clavate, diverging ; cells large, dark brick-red, making the coral look 

 as if spotted with blood. 



Hab. ? 



Fam. 3. Subergorgiad^. 



Coral branched ; branches compressed, dichotomous. ^ Cells on 

 the sides of the branches, with a sunken groove on each side of the 

 stem ; bark granular. Axis continuous, cork-like, soft, calcareous. 



1. Subergorgia. 

 Suhergorgia, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, pp. 159, 288. 



1. S. suberosa, Esper, t. 49. B.M. 



2. S. compressa. Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 288. B.M. 

 (See Gorgonia Richardi, Lamx. Pol. Flex. 407-) 



2. SOLANDERIA. 



Solanderia, Duchassaing, Rev. Zool, 1846, p. 218. 



"Axis continuous, of a suberose texture, resembling the non-calci- 

 fied joints of MeZ^Ye/^c."— M.-Edw. 



S. GRACILIS, Duch. loe, cit. 

 ' Very much branched ; branchlet rounded, irregular, striated ; 

 bark tomentose or granulose. 



Hah. Guadaloupe. 



I have not seen this coral. The Gorgonia suberosa of Ellis's ' Co- 

 rallines,' t. 29. f. Q & R, which has been called Plexaura suberosa by 

 Lamouroux, Briareum suberosum by Dana, and which Ellis described 

 as having a pale red axis " of the substance of cork," striated ex- 

 ternally and subcylindrical, " a fleshy spongy bark, with the cells 

 on all sides disposed in a quincinix order," would appear to be allied 

 to the family AnnelladcB : but I have not been able to discover this 

 coral in any collection. It would indeed appear to be intermediate 



