| Latin name | Lawsonia inermis L. | | Family | Lythraceae | | Identified with (Lat) | Lawsonia alba Lam. | | Identified with (Skt) | medhinī, madayantikā, nakharajanī | | Identified with (Hin) | mehanti, henā | | Identified with (Tam) | mailēnanti, marutāṇi | | Identified with (Mal) | mailāñci, mayilāñci | | Identified with (Eng) | Henna, Egyptian priven, Cypress shrub | | Botanical info | A glabrous deciduous shrub, growing scarcely in dry deciduous forest, widely cultivated, flowers white or rose coloured, fragrant, in large terminal pyramidal panicled cymes, fruits globose capsules | | Search occurrence | medhinī, madayantikā, nakharajanī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Lawsonia inermis L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 778)
madayantikā, f. Arabian jasmine, VarYogay.; N. of a woman, Mālatīm. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 524)
nakharajanī, f. a kind of plant and its fruit, L.
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