1. Reyesia chilensis Gay 
CPL. Ty 2) 
Gay, Hist. Fis. Pol. Chile, Bot. 4: 418, lam. 52. 1849. TYPE: 
Chile, Prov. Coquimbo, in siccis pr. Copiapo, Gay s. n. [ann.] 
1838 (Holotype: P; isotype: K).— Hunziker, Kurtziana 10: 46. 
1977.—D’Arcy in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 65: 712, f. 1 D. 
1978. 
Pteroglossis laxa Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2,5 (25): 33. 
January 1850. HOLOTYPE: Chile, Coquimbo, Bridges 1389 
in herb. Hooker (K); the collection number is not /839, as was 
wrongly transcribed by Miers (1. c.). The calyx has glandular 
hairs with oblong heads; furthermore, the plate subsequently 
published by Miers (Ill. South Amer. PI. 2: 32, tab. 52. 1849- 
1857) shows that the filaments are glabrous. It follows, then, 
that this name isasynonym of R. chilensis, and not of R. parvi- 
flora as was believed by D’Arcy (1978: 713). 
Salpiglossis chilensis (Gay) Wettstein in Engl. u. Prantl, Natur. 
Pflanzenfam. 4 (3 b): 36, f. 16 H-J. [891]. 
Salpiglossis brachysiphon Johnston in Contr. Gray Herb. 85: 
161. 1929. HOLOTYPE: Chile: Prov. Antofagasta, steep hill- 
side ca. 6 Km N of port [Tocopilla] and about opposite Caleta 
Duendes, Johnston 3625, 18 Oct 1925. “A brittle glandular 
plant; flowers dilute blue (GH). 
Revesia laxa (Miers) D'Arcy, in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 65: 
713. 1978, 
Apparently a perennial species (or biennial?); each plant has 
several stems without a basal rosette of leaves, and the roots 
attain 4 mm in diameter. The lower leaves have comparatively 
large blades (almost 6 cm long and 2.2 cm broad) pinnately cleft 
or almost pinnatisect, and conspicuous petioles (1.2-4 cm long); 
but at the upper nodes the petioles are shorter and even disappear, 
and the blades become smaller until the uppermost ones look like 
filiform, linear scales 2-10 mm long. 
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