Tas. 6609. 
PARN ASSIA nusico.a. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Saxrrragacem.—Tribe SaxtFRaGEX. 
Genus Parnassia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 639.) 
SaxirraGa nubicola; glaberrima, scapis acute angulatis, foliis radicalibus ellipticis 
v. elliptico-ovatis cordatis v. lanceolatis acutis nervis 5-7 subtus prominentibus, 
caulino sessili basi 4-amplexicauli, flore 1-1} poll. diam., sepalis late ovatis 
obtusis, petalis obovatis sepalis subduplo longioribus margine nudis v. hic illic 
erosis, staminodiis paleformibus apice obtuse 3-lobis, ovarii ovoidei basi calyci 
immerso stigmatibus 3 capitatis, capsula semipollicari inferne subconica 
vertice rotundata stylo brevissimo coronata, seminibus ellipsoideis, testa 
reticulata firma, 
P. nubicola, Wall. Cat. n. 1246, et in Wight. Tiz. t. 21; Arn. in Hook. Comp. 
Bot. May. vol. ii. p. 315; Hook. f. et Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. 
p. 81; Drude in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 315; Royle Ill. Pl. Himal. p. 50; 
C. B. Clarke in Fl, Brit. Ind. vol, ii. p. 402. 
The “ Grasses of Parnassus ”’ have their head-quarters in 
India, no fewer than eight species occurring in the 
Himalaya and Khasia Mountains, of which two extend to 
the Nilgherry Mountains in the Western Peninsula. The 
common British species, Parnassia palustris is one of them, 
though it only just enters the region of the Indian: flora, 
being found in Western Tibet by Falconer and others. 
This is its western known limit in low latitudes, though 
in higher it occurs all round the globe. P. nubicola is 
the largest aud coarsest of all the species, attaining a 
height of eighteen inches, with sometimes four or five 
flowering scapes from the root; it however wants the 
delicate beauty and pure white petals of the European 
plant. It has been found throughout the Himalaya range, 
from Kashmir in the West, where it descends to 6000 feet _ 
above the sea, to Sikkim in the East, where I have gathered 
it at 12,000 feet, and as low as 8000, The specimen here 
FEBRUARY lst, 1882, 
