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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., iii. 605 ; 
Roxb. 50. 
Vern . : — Banarish (Afg.); Sum ; Sunnu ; Shun (Pb.) ; Angan, 
angu, dakhuri (U. P.) ; Kangu r tuhasi (Nepal). 
Habitat -: — Temperate and Sub-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, faleately serrate, membranous, glabrous above, pilose 
on the nerves beneath when young. Main lateral nerves about 12 
pair, slender, joined by reticulated secondary nerves. Petiolules 
J-^in. Inflorescence a large terminal panicle ; pedicels fascicu- 
lated on the branches of the panicles. Flowers about £in. long, 
generally 2-sexual. Calyx minute, acutely 4-toothed, somewhat en- 
larged in fruit. Corolla-lobes |in. 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, l-ljin. including the wing. Seed solitary. 
Use : — A concrete, saccharine exudation (manna) 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). 
