| Latin name | Ixora coccinea L. | | Family | Rubiaceae | | Identified with (Skt) | pārantī | | Identified with (Hin) | raṅgan, rugmiṇi | | Identified with (Tam) | ceṭṭi, veṭcci | | Identified with (Mal) | tecci, cetti, teṟṟi | | Identified with (Eng) | Jungle-flame ixora, Sacred ixora, Flame of the woods | | Botanical info | A glabrous shrub growing throughout West Coast, leaves elliptic, ovate or obovate, olive green when dry, flowers scarlet, in dense sessile or peduncled corymbiform cymes, fruits globose, fleshy, purple | | Search occurrence | pārantī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Ixora coccinea L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1583)
ceṭṭi: 01 1. Vaisya or mercantile caste; 2. Title of traders; 3. Skanda
02 Scarlet ixora
03 Wrestler, prize-fighter
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