Phuopsis
(from Phu, and opsis, resemblance; alluding to the similarity in the plants). ORD. Rubiaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a hardy, slender herb, with a perennial root, and a slender, elongated stem. For culture, see Crucianella.
P. stylosa (large-styled).* fl. pink, hermaphrodite, capitate, involucrate, bracteate and bibracteolate; calyx with an obovoid tube and an obsolete limb; corolla tubular-funnel-shape, with five oblong-ovate, obtuse, valvate lobes. July. l. in whorls of six to eight, sessile, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate; margins spinyciliate. h. 1ft. Caucasus, 1836. (B. R. 1838, 55, under name of Crucianella stylosa.)