Lysinema
(from lysis, freeing, and nema, a filament; in reference to the stamens being free). ORD. Epacrideae. A genus of very pretty, greenhouse, evergreen, erect or prostrate shrubs. There are five species, all natives of Australia. Flowers white or pink, axillary, solitary; corolla salver-shaped; tube cylindrical. Leaves erect or spreading, linear-ovate or elliptic. The species described below is the only one introduced. For culture, see Epacris. L. pungens (pungent). fl. white, or rarely red, sessile in the upper axils. March. l. ovate, acuminated, spreading, stem-clasping. h. 2ft. to 3ft. New South Wales, &c., 1804. (B. M. 1199, under name of Epacris pungens.)