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(named after James Cambe edes, coadjutor of Auguste St. Hilaire, in his "Flora Brasiliæ Meridional is," and author of several botanical memoirs). O RD. Melas to maceæ. A genus of elegant, erect, or ascending, dichotomously branched stove shrubs or herbaceous plants. Flowers terminal and axillary, in paniculate cymes; petals five, obovate; calyx bell-shaped. Leaves se ile, opposite or verticillate, obovate, oblong or linear. They thrive best in a compost of peat and sand. Propagated by half-ripened cuttings, which root freely in a similar mixture, if placed in heat and under a hand gla . There are about eight species known to science, but probably that mentioned below is the only one in cultivation.