We study the condition, on a connected and locally connected geometric morphism p : E → S, that the canonical natural transformation p∗ → p! should be (pointwise) epimorphic — a condition which F.W. Lawvere [11] called the ‘Nullstellensatz’, but which we prefer to call ‘punctual local connectedness’. We show that this condition implies that p! preserves finite products, and that, for bounded mo...