Abstract
A low, glabrous, evergreen shrub, (5)-10-25-(40) cm tall. The flowering stems are decumbent to erect, sparingly branched, arising from a creeping, woody rhizome (Warming 1908; Fl. Eur. 3; Fl. Br. Isl.; Hegi Fl. 1, ed. 3; Ramneau et al. 1993; Stace 1997). The leaves are narrow, alternate, subsessile, coriaceous, oblong to linear, dark green above, silvery-glaucous beneath, 10-40 x 2-8 mm (Barvaux 1958; Fl. Eur. 3; Fl. Br. Isl.; Rameau et al. 1993; Stace 1997). They are mucronulate (Anderson 1961) or acute to apiculate (Fl. Eur. 3); their margins are usually revolute (Fl. Br. Isl.; Rameau et nl. 1993). The flowers are pentamerous (Barvaux 1958; Anderson 1961; Hegi Fl. 1, ed. 3), in very short, umbellike terminal racemes of 2-7-(12) (Warming 1908; Fl. Eur. 3; Rameau etal. 1993). However, Warming (1908) reported 4-merous flowers in Finnmark and in Greenland. The pedicels are pinkish, 2-4 times as long as the corolla (Barvaux 1958; Fl. Br. Isl.; Hegi Fl. 1, ed. 3); they are 7-15 mm long and slender (Fl. Eur. 3). The sepals are persistent, triangular, reddish, acute, about 1 .5 mm long (Anderson 1961; Fl. Eur. 3) and connate at base (Fl. Eur. 3). Two bracteoles lie at the extreme base of the pedicel, concealed by a bract (Fl. Eur. 3). Corolla globose-urceolate with 5 recurved teeth; drooping (Webb 1967), inclined or pendent (Fl. Eur. 3), bright pink at first, fading almost to white. It reaches 5-8 mm long (Warmzing 1908; Barvaux 1958; Anderson 1961; Fl. Br. Isl.; Hegi Fl. 1, ed. 3; Rameau et cal. 1993) and it continues to grow during flowering (Warming 1908). The interior of the corolla is covered with erect, usually somewhat upturned, hairs that extend to the margin of the limb (Warming 1908). The stigma lies just at or imnediately within the throat of the corolla, and the 10 anthers, which are at the level of the middle of the pistil and the corolla, bend inwards towards the style (Warming 1908; Barvaux 1958; Hegi Fl. 1, ed. 3; Rameau etal. 1993). The filaments are strongly swollen just above their slender short bases and are covered with fairly long hairs along the greater part of their length (Warming 1908; Anderson 1961). The anthers are covered with small protuberances; they open at the apex by two pores of irregular shape (Warming 1908; Hegi Fl. 1, ed. 3). The two apical appendages are as long as the anthers, glabrous and slightly curved (Warming 1908; And-
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