Lyonsia
(named after Israel Lyons, 1739-1775, Professor of Botany at Oxford, and author of a Flora of Cambridge). ORD. Apocynaceae. A genus comprising about thirteen species of twining shrubs or sub-shrubs, of which one is a native of New Caledonia, one inhabits the Fiji Islands, and the rest are Australian. L. straminea, the only species yet introduced, is a greenhouse evergreen twiner, allied to Parsonsia. It thrives in a compost of sandy peat, to which may be added a small quantity of fibry loam. Increased, during April, by cuttings of the young shoots, placed in sand, under a hand glass. L. straminea (straw-coloured). fl. striped, small; corolla funnel-shaped, with a five-parted, recurved, bearded limb; cymes terminal, trichotomous. June. l. shortly-stalked, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, glabrous. New South Wales, &c., 1820.