876 Serophulariaceae. 
narrower. Stamens 2, inserted on the corolla-tube at the sides of 
the upper lobe, exserted; anther-cells divergent or parallel, obtuse, 
confluent at the apex. Style subcapitate at the apex. Capsule 
compressed or turgid, 2-sulcate, loculicidal. Seeds few or many, 
ovate or orbicular, affixed by the inner flat or concave surface, 
smooth or rugulose on the back, often with a thickened or wing- 
like margin; embryo straight. — Herbs, shrubs or more rarely trees. 
Leaves opposite, moore rarely verticillate or somewhat scattered. 
Flowers in terminal or axillary bracteate racemes, more rarely 
solitary in the axils of alternate leaves; pedicels ebracteolate. Corolla 
blue, purple, flesh-coloured or white, never yellow. Capsule very 
often obtuse or emarginate. 
Species about 200, chiefly in the temperate and cold regions of both 
hemispheres: very few in tropical countries and America. Shrubby species 
are numerous in New Zealand. 
A. Perennials. Racemes axillary, usually opposite. 
I. Leaves sessile. 
a) Leaves ovate . bitty. V. angallis. 
b) Leaves lanceolate-linear . ..... . . 2. V. anagalloides. 
II. Leaves petioled ..... .... . 83. V. Baceabunga. 
B. Annuals. Flowers terminal or ‘ail ak ... . 4. V. Buxbaumii. 
1228. (1.) Veronica anagallis L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 16 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 438. — Rchbch. Ic. XX, tab. 80. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Ke., p. 117 no. 792. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. 
d’Eg., p. 265. — Benth. in DC. Prodrom. X, p. 467. — Veronica 
aquatica Bernhardi Ueber d. Begriff d. Pflanzenart, p. 66. — A suc- 
culent glabrous or glandular-pubescent herb, 30—60 em high; stem 
creeping and rooting at the base, then erect, stout, hollow, branched. 
Leaves sessile, lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong or ovate- lanceolate, 2 to 
61/, cm long, 1—2'/, cm broad, usually acute, semi-amplexicaul, 
more or less remotely serrate or entire. Racemes 5—8'/, cm long, 
in the axils of all or nearly all the upper leaves; bracts lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, 2-51/, mm long; pedicels spreading, 2—5 mm 
long. Calyx 21/, mm long; segments oblong-lanceolate, 2 mm long, 
subacute. Corolla blue, pale blue or flesh- coloured, about 5 mm in 
broad; lateral segments broadly elliptic, nearly 2 mm diam.; upper 
segment broadly ovate, 2mm long, nearly 2 mm long, 1,5 mm 
broad; lower segment 1,5 mm long, scarcely 1 mm broad. Japsule 
orbicular, slightly emarginate, 2—2'/, mm long. 
N. d. N.f. N. v. Common in sides of jrrigation-canals. — 0. 
Little Oasis; Dakhel; Great Oasis. 
Local name: habaq (Aschers.). 
Also in nearly all warm and temperate regions. 
