PAEDERIA (from paedor, an offensive smell; referring to the rank odour of PAEDERIA faetida). SYN. Hondbessen. ORD. Rubiaceae. A small genus (five or six species) of stove, climbing shrubs, with twining stems, natives of tropical Asia, and one Brazilian. Flowers small, disposed in loose, two or three-forked cymes, produced either from the axils of the leaves or at the ends of the branches; calyx persistent, four or five-toothed; corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, hairy inside; limb of four or five spreading lobes. Fruit a small berry. Leaves opposite, rarely ternately whorled, membranous, petiolate. The under-mentioned species (the only one yet introduced) thrives in a compost of sandy loam and leaf mould. Propagated, in summer, by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass. PAEDERIA foetida (stinking). Chinese Fever Plant. fl. deep pink, numerous; panicles axillary, opposite, short, rarely terminal. May. fr. broadly elliptic, compressed, polished. l. oblong or lanceolate, cordate at the base. Tropical Asia, &c., 1806. All parts of this plant emit a most offensive odour when bruised; the stems yield a tough, fine fibre, and the Hindoos use the roots as an emetic.