MAspEVALLIA CHmmra. 
flowers are smallest and the ground colour of the sepals is whitish, some pure white at the connection of 
the lateral sepals. The plants growing on the watershed of the Cordillera between Toyo and Cafasgordas, 
on the slopes of the Morrogacho and the Alto de las Alegrias near Abriaqui, and’on the Cerro Plateado 
near Frontino, produce flowers of a good medium size. Their colour is here most variable. At Toyo 
there is a variety with flowers of a peculiar reddish colour stained with copper-brown and borne on stiff 
upright stalks. In the plants growing on the Cerro Plateado near Frontino, the flowers are tiger-like, 
thickly speckled (not blotched) with blackish-brown on a light yellow ground. From the Cerro de 
Caramanta, southwards by the Altos de Talmani, and the Cerro de Calima as far as the Farallones de 
Cali, M. Chimera grows mixed with M. Chestertonii. The variety growing here may be considered to be 
the type of the species, for it was near the latter place, on the Cordillera de San Antonio above Cali, that 
Roez] first met with it. 
Both the yellow and the whitish variety grow intermixed here. The latter as a 
rule produces the largest flowers, while the yellow form is more substantial and decidedly prettier. The 
largest flowered variety grows at a place called Bellavista, on a narrow rocky range of mountains 
projecting from the Cerro Munchique, in the Western Andes of Popaydn, and running north-west towards 
Mencheque and Micay on the Pacific. 
The plants here grow chiefly on rocks among sphagnum moss, 
and bear upright flower-stalks, which often attain the length of 25 to 35 centimetres (about 10 to 14 
inches), thus raising the flowers up above the leaves. Roezl’s statement, that he found plants with 
flower-stalks two feet long, is an exaggeration. Near the frontier of Ecuador on the road from Tuquerres 
to Barbacoas, near the little village of Pususquer, there grows a variety with flowers streaked rather than 
blotched with blackish-brown, but the characteristic lip of the species remains unmodified. The plant 
here represented is found in the Western Andes of Cali, in Cauca. 
