Oedera
(named in honour of George (Eder, 1728-1794, Professor of Botany at Copenhagen). ORD. Compositae. A small genus (four species) of greenhouse shrubs, confined to South Africa. Flower-heads yellow, brownish at back, heterogamous, sessile at the apices of the branches or between the uppermost leaves, solitary or few; receptacle small; achenes glabrous. Leaves opposite, clustered, imbricated, or squarrose, short, sessile, coriaceous, entire, often scabrous ciliated. The under-mentioned species succeeds in sandy loam, with the admixture of a little peat. Propagation may be effected by cuttings, inserted in sandy soil, under a hand glass, in heat. OE. prolifera (proliferous). fl.-heads yellow; ray-florets dark purplish-maroon at back. May and June. l. lanceolate, opposite, ciliated, glabrous on both sides, reflexed. h. 1ft. 1789. (B. M. 1637.)