5^8 CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION OF 
The peculiar habit of the species which compose this 
genus/ would seem of itself sufficient to warrant its separa- 
tion from the preceding. The shortness of the florets, when 
compared with the length of the scales, composing the bell- 
shaped involucrum, and the receptacle being beset with ri- 
gid, pointed palese, will serve to confirm the separation. 
The rays of the seed-crown are merely united at the base. 
The colour of the involucrum varies in the different species 
from white to purple and yellow. The generic name, which 
is intended to denote the remarkable simplicity of form ob- 
servable in all the species of this genus, I have derived from 
simplex^ and si*?, habitus. 
EUCHLOUIS. 
Gnapkaltt sp. Liinn. 
Involucrum subrotundum, imbricatum, scariosum, colo- 
ratum, connivens: squamis rotundo-ovalibus, membrana- 
ceis. Receptaculum paleis angulatis, retusis, rigidis, in co- 
num conniventibus, basi coalitis crebre tectum. Flosculi 
omnes hermaphroditi. tubulosi, 5-dentati. A7ithercB basi 
biplumatse. Stigma bipartitum : Jaciniis linearibus, trun- 
catis. Pappi racliis basi connexis, apice peniculatis. 
Herba (Africae australis) perennis, sempervirenSy nuda. 
Gaulis erectus, simplex, Jirmus, teres, superne apliyllus^ 
sesquipedalis. Folia elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 5-nervia, iii- 
tegerrima, uti'inque nuda, vii'idia, coriacea, S-4<-poUicariay 
petiolata ; caulina ampleocicaidia. Flores tei^minales, nume- 
rosissimi, composite corymbosi, magnitudine AntennarisB' 
margaritaceje, Jiivek 
1. E. rmdifolia. 
Gnaphalium nudifolium, Linn. 
Hah. in Promontorio Bonae Spei. Roxburgh. V, (v. s. 
sp, in Herb. Lamb.) 
