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India, Jumna to the Godavery. Cultivated throughout India on account of its fragrant fl. 

 which open in tlie evening and drop at sunrise. Fl. more or less throughout the year, 

 generally during the raint.. Often gregarious m dry places, coppices vigorously. One 

 of the species to be employed when the necesbity for utilizing the waste lands in. tlie 

 plains of Northern India comes to be recognized. 



2. FRAXINUS, Linn. ; FL Brit. Ind. iii. 605. 



Trees, rarely shrubs, 1. opposite, imparipinnate, leaflets opposite. M. poly- 

 gamous or dioicous, in racemes or compact rounded panicles. Calyx cup-shaped 

 or wanting, petals 4 or 0, stigma bifid. Fr. indehiscent, winged at the end, 

 1-seeded. Albumen fleshy or somewhat horny, embryo cylindric, radicle 

 superior. Species 40, northern temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



A. Petals 4, fl. appearing after the leaves. 



1. F. floribunda, Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 277 ; Brandis F. FL t. 37. Vern. 

 Sum, AngUj Ango, N.W. HimaL 



A middle-sized or large deciduous tree, leaflets 2-4 pair, membranous, hairy 

 beneath while young, ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrate, blade 3-6, pet. i-i Ib.? 

 sec. n. 10-14 pair, prominent beneath. FL w^iite, in large compound terminal 

 panicles. Petals linear-oblong, narrowed at both ends, 2-3 times the length 

 of calyx. Fr. oblanceolate, 1-1 i in. long, supported by the enlarged calyx. 



Afghanistan. Trans Indus territory. Himalaya, 5-9,000 ft., locally on rich soil 

 chiefly on or near limestone, Khasi hills. Shan Hills at 4,000 ft. Fl. April, May. 

 2. F. GriffitMi, Clarke. Mishmee hills, leaflets coriaceous, entire. 



B. Petals 0, fl. appearing before the leaves. 



3. E excelsior, Linn. K.W. Himalaya, basin of the Jhelam, Chenab andEavi rivers, 



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Fig. 168 Fraxinus xanthoxyloides, Wall. J 



4-9,000 ft. Europe and Mountains of Western Asia. A tall tree, leaflets sessile, or 

 nearly so, 2-4 pair, base entire, upper part slightly serrate. Fl. appearing before the 

 Lin short of ten fascicled racemes from above the scars of the previous year's!., ^ and §, 



