specimens collected have narrower and rather deeply serrate leaves, much recalling 

 /. maritima of the said species. The leaves are completely glabrous, only rather rarely 

 slightly hairy on the under side, especially so along the veins. The stem is erect and rather 

 stout, round, glabrous below, more or less puberulent above, being also hairy below, 

 but only about the nodes. The spike-like raceme is rather densely flowered, solitary 

 or several, about 5 — 8 cm. long, when fructiferous frequently somewhat prolonged, to 15 

 cm. long. The pedicels are short, about 1 mm. long, sparingly pubescent. The bracts 

 lanceolate to linear, nerveless, short, of about the same length as the pedicels, and, save 

 for the lower ones, which may sometimes be foliaceously developed, never reaching up 

 to the top of the calyx. The calyx-lobes are always of equal size, fully 1 mm. long, nearly 

 ovate, subobtuse or subacute at the apex, nerveless, glabrous, and beset with scatteried, 

 short, glandular hairs at the margin, never lanceolate and as distinctly acuminate as in 

 V. longifolia. The corolla is of an azure colour, about 4 times as long as the calyx; its 

 lobes are suborbicular to broadly ovate, the upper one somewhat broader than the rest. 

 The tube of the corolla is rather densely villous within. The stamens are glabrous, pro- 

 truding. The capsule is compressed, nearly obcordate, 3 — 4 mm. long, thus exceding 

 rather considerably the calyx-lobes, glabrous. The style is much protruding, 6 — 7 mm. 

 long. When dried this plant often assumes a dark, brownish red colour, and especially 

 the upper parts of the plants being often of a nearly chocolate colour. 



It appears from the description given above that our plant, especially in the shape 

 of the calyx-lobes and the shorter bracts, is also rather closely connected with V. 

 spuria, from which, however, it is distinctly separated by the shape of the leaves, being 

 always broadest near the base, and never cuneately tapering towards the petiole; the 

 flower cluster is, besides, more densely flowered than is usual in that species. Of V. 

 pseudolongifolia I have collected a rather rich material from various localities in the 

 territory traversed, and all of the specimens are quite agreeable to the characters pointed 

 out above. Also from more northerly regions in the Yenisei valley, in latitude of about 

 60°, I have received specimens precisely corresponding to my V. pseudolongifolia, which, 

 accordingly, are indications that this new species is rather widely distributed in northern 

 and middle Asia. In the herbarium of the Imperial Botanical Gardens in Petrograd I 

 have found, under the name of Veronica longifolia L., Siberian specimens agreeing 

 perfectly with the species described above. To judge from a cursory examination, 

 which I have undertaken of the material of the said herbarium, V. pseudolongifolia 

 seemed to extend through Siberia, westwards to about the government of Tomsk. Its 

 nearest relations are no doubt the European V. longifolia and V. spuria. None of these, 

 however, is to be found in my material, and V. pseudolongifolia is therefore, possibly, the 

 one substituting these species in this part of Siberia. 



The above species is very common in thickets, etc., on the islets in the rivers Yeni- 

 sei and Abakan, where I have collected it with young, generally not yet opened flowers 

 in June. Specimens partly full-blown and partly done flowering have been collected 



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