768 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



The expressed juice of the leaves acts as a cholagogue, 

 laxative and mild bitter tonic (Dr. Thornton, in Watt's 

 Dictionary). 



The expressed juice of the leaves is given with a little sugar 

 to children as a remedy for intestinal (thread and round) worms. 

 In several cases, it has been found to act efficaciously by 

 destroying the worms. It may be tried as a substitute for 

 Santonin (B. D. B.). 



740. Fraxinus floribunda, Wall, h.f.b.i., hi. 605 ; 

 Roxb. 50. 



Vern. : — Banarish (Afg.) ; Sum ; Sunnu ; Shun (Pb.) ; Angan, 

 angu, dakhuri (U. P.) ; Kangu, tuhasi (Nepal). 



Habitat: — Temperate and Sab-alpine Himalaya, from Kash- 

 mir to Bhotan and the Khasia Mts. 



A large, deciduous tree. Bark ashy-grey. Smooth on young 

 poles, dark and deeply longitudinally furrowed on mature trees. 

 Wood white, with a light red tinge, no heart-wood, soft and 

 moderately hard. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, rachis 5-8in. 

 long. Leaflets usually 7, less frequently 5-9, lateral opposite 

 3-5in. by l-3in., ovate, oblong, elliptic or lanceolate, usually long 

 acuminate, falcately serrate, membranous, glabrous above, pilose 

 on the nerves beneath when young. Main lateral nerves about 12 

 pair, slender, joined by reticulated secondary nerves. Petiolules 

 ^-Jin. Inflorescence a large terminal panicle ; pedicels fascicu- 

 lated on the branches of the panicles. Flowers about Jin. long, 

 generally 2-sexual. Calyx minute, acutely 4-toothed, somewhat en- 

 larged in fruit. Corolla-lobes iin. long, linear-oblong, narrowed at 

 both ends, induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens near base of 

 Corolla-tube. Filaments about j^in. long. Ovary 2-celled. Stigma 

 2-fid ; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit an oblanceolate 

 samara, 1-1 Jin. including the wing. Seed solitary. 



Use : — A concrete, saccharine exudation (mannaj is obtained 

 by incision from the stem, and is a substitute for the officinal 

 manna. This is used for its sweeting and slightly laxative 

 properties (Watt). 



