Veronica. 877 
var. nilotica Uechtr. in Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg. (1887), 
p. 117 no. 792. — Leaves smaller, crenulate, longer petioled, the 
upper-ones, acuminate, often with an erect acumen; flowers and 
fruit smaller than in the type. — Flow. March to April. 
N. d. Alexandria. — N. v. Near Aswan. 
Only known from Egypt. 
1229. (2.) Veronica anagalloides Guss. Plant. rarior. (1826), 
p- 5 tab. 3. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.437. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. 
Flor. d’Eg., p. 117 no. 794. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 265. 
— A perennial plant, 30—40 cm high, or sometimes somewhat’ 
more, glabrous or puberulent; stems fistulous. Leaves sessile, lan- 
ceolate-linear, entire or sparingly denticulate. Racemes panicled; 
bracts linear, longer than the ascending pedicels; calyx-lobes un- 
equal, elliptical; corolla white, not longer than the calyx. — Flow. 
February to April. 
M. ma. Mariut. — N.d. Damanhtr; Tanta: Shirbin; Mansura;. 
Zifta; Zaqaziq; Qalyib, everywhere in ditches. — N. f. Kom Faris; 
Sentris: Tamia; El-Wady; Biahmu; El-Edwa; Fidemin; Gharagq. 
Local name: °ain-el-qutt (G. Roth). 
Also known from Greece, Anatolia, Arabia Petraea, Syria and Trans- 
eaucasia, Kurope. 
1230. (3.) Veronica Beccabunga L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 16. 
— Forma minima Engler Hochgebirgsflora Trop. Afrika (1892), 
p. 379. — Veronica Beccabunga var., A. Rich. Tentam. Flor. Abyss. H, 
p. 125. — Flora of Tropic. Africa IV, sect II p. 358. — A glabrous 
or sparingly puberulous herb; stems about 6 cm long, rather stout: 
and succulent, decumbent and rooting in the lower part. Leaves 
shortly stalked, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 1—2 cm long, 5*/, mm 
broad, subacute, narrowed at the base, rather fleshy, obscurely few- 
toothed. Racemes axillary, about 2 cm long, few-flowered; bracts 
linear-oblong, 27/,—5 mm long, scarcely acute; pedicels somewhat 
shorter than the bracts. Calyx 2'/,—2%/, mm long; segments ob- 
long, obtuse. Corolla blue about 2'/, mm long. Capsule suborbicular, 
slightly shorter than the calyx. — Flow. March. 
N. v. Island of the Sirdar near Aswan (Muschler). 
Also known from Abyssinia. 
1231. (4.) Veronica Buxbaumii Ten. Flor. Nap. I (1811), p. 7 
tab. I. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 465. — Flor. Dan., tab. 1692. — 
Veronica persica Poir. Dict. VIL, p.542. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Hl 
Flor. d’Kg., p. 117 no. 795. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Fg., p. 265. 
— Rehbch. Ic. Flor. Germ., tab. 78. — Veronica agrestis var. Byzanthina 
