very distinctly separated by the fact that in Veronica pseudolongifolia they are practi- 

 cally sessile, or only very short-petioled, the petiole to about 1 — 2 mm. long. This charac- 

 ter especially distinguishes our plant. The lower leaves are ovate-lanceolate, the upper 

 ones gradually narrower, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, generally 5—6 times as long as 

 broad, acuminate at the apex; the base is rounded or subcordate, whereby the leaves 

 become frequently nearly clasping the stem, never cuneately tapering towards the base, 

 as is the case in V spuria L., which it recalls by the short bracts and the subacute 

 calyx-lobes. The margin of the leaves is sharply and coarsely serrate, with appressed 



Fig. 106. Veronica pseudolongifolia nov. spec. Different types of leaves, with complete petioles, 

 the two on the right hand side conduplicate ('/i). 



teeth; only rarely the margin may be slightly duplicate-serrate. There occur sometimes 

 specimens in which the apex of the leaf is entire or nearly so. The leaves are com- 

 monly opposite, or verticillate in 3's; more than 3 leaves in each node have not been 

 found by me in any of the specimens collected. The middle stem-leaves are 1,5—2 cm. 

 broad, and 7—10 cm. long when full-grown; of more rare occurrence are narrow-leaved 

 specimens, the leaves of which are only about 1 cm. broad. There occur frequently spe- 

 cimens with nearly rectangularly spreading leaves, distinctly conduplicate, so as to exhibit 

 a form parallel to f. complicata, of the nearly allied species V. lonqifolia. Some of the 



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