A NEW CARDAMINE. 293 
Among some curious Cruciferous plants sent home from 
the high mountains of New Granada by Mr. Purdie, is the 
really beautiful Cardamine here represented from the banks 
of streams on the Paramo of Ruiz. It is remarkable for its 
large size, some of the specimens being three feet in length, 
with leaves a span or more long, and then not inaptly 
resembling the foliage of some Erodium, (especially Erodium 
maritimum) ; and the first aspect of the large purple flowers, 
and the long beaked fruit, intermingled in the foliage, remind 
one also of some geraniaceous plant. I know of no flower of 
Cardamine that can be compared to this in size or in colour: 
the nearest, in both those particulars, and somewhat in 
foliage and habit, is a new species in my Herbarium, first 
found by Professor Jameson on the Cordillera of Pillaro, (El 
Equador,) at an elevation of 15000 feet above the level of the 
Has. Cordillera of Pilaro , alt. 1500 feet; Prof. W. 
lima, New Granada; M. Goudot. — 
