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leaves are slightly hairy: the leaf-stalk, stem and especially 

 the peduncle are covered with short adpressed hairs: the 

 peduncle is furrowed. 



The five perigone-leaves are hairv' and somew hat violet in 

 colour: they are outwardly or downwardly directed in the open 

 flower and fall ofiF early. The nee ta ry- leaves are somewhat 

 longer than the perigone-leaves, and are pale yellow with violet 

 veins on the underside (Sucions, 1906) ; the nectarv- is simple and 

 pocket-shaped iFig. 9, B). The stamens are rather few in number 

 and are situated close to the lower part of the large gynaeceum 

 lA. & H.i: the head of carpels is ovate in the young flower, 

 but elongates somewhat and becomes cylindrical during fruit- 

 setting : in var. Wi- 

 yf^^ la »deri it remains 



ovate. According to 

 my computations the 

 diameter of the 

 flower was about 

 Fig. 9. R. affini-i. 2 — hem. (according 



Carpels; Ax, ripe; Ai. daring flowerin? TCape Thordsen: jq \yDER5 ic HeS- 

 e/i). B, Bas« of .:::•:. 



SELjf. it is l'ô — 2 cm.» 

 and the corolla is almost flat when it is fully e&panded (A. & 

 H.). The flowers which have been investigated from Gàselandet 

 appear to be protogynous-homogamous. The stamens bad not 

 yet opened, nor had they elongated, but the carpels had fully- 

 developed papillae upon the stigmas. The plant begins to flower 

 in the early part of July at Scoresby Sound, in East Greenland 

 iHartz. DrsÉy) and in Spitzbergen: in August it has ripe fruit 

 I Herbarium-specimen'. 



Lavge records that it grows in damp localities, Sudiöss 

 (1906i found it in well-manured soil under a nesting-place for 

 sea-gulls. 



Geographical Distribution. West Greenland irarei, 

 N.E.Greenland. Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla. Arctic Siberia, 



