428 Scientific Intelligence. 
Echinogorgia aurantiaca Verrill (= Plexaura aurantiaca Val; 
Leptogorgia aurantiaca E. and H., Corall. i, p. 165). 
The spicula of this species show that it isan Echinogorgia, pretty 
nearly allied to Z. sasappo. e spicula are yellow, mostly large, 
broad, flattened clubs, or scale-clubs, the smaller end often acute, 
sometimes blunt, covered with rough warts, the large end usually 
terminating in one or more broad, flat, irregular, rounded scales, 
which are often lobed, or even subdivided into sharp, lacerate spin- 
ules. With these are many more or less regular four-branched — 
crosses, with rather slender, acute, warty branches; and various — 
forms of irregular, often branched, warty spindles, and compound — 
spicula. 
P The clubs and scale-clubs resemble those of Z. sasappo figured — 
9,,- The scale-clubs measure -290™™ by -216™™, -288 by ‘204, 288° 4 
by °156, ‘264 by 192, -260 by °168, -240 by °156, :216 by °156,°192 ~ 
by °132, 192 by -084, 180 by 084; the crosses ‘240 by ‘192, - g 
by °156, ‘144 by -120, 120 by 096; the irregular spindles 336 by — 
‘072, -288 by -084, 252 by -084, 4 
Callao, Peru. us. Paris. 
Thesea gemmata, sp. nov. a 
Corallum flabelliform, much branched; branches long, slender, — 
seldom coalescent. The trunk is roundish, moderately stout, up- — 
right, giving off from each side at distances of 5 to °75 of an inch — 
numerous very long, flexible, spreading branches, which in turn — 
give rise to numerous secondary branches and branchlets arranged — 
subpinnately, at distances of about half an inch. 
I and ve ite. 
Height 17 inches; breadth 12; diameter of trunk *18; of larg 
_ composed of Jon te spindles, with small, dis- 
_ tant, conical spinules; the superficial layer is com d of sma 
ort, warty double-spindles, double-heads, heads, and oblong § 
