396 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Rosidae

► Order Myrtales

► Family Lythraceae - Loosestrife family

► Genus Lawsonia L. - Lawsonia

Synonyms

(=) Lawsonia alba Lam.

Lawsonia inerma

Common names

Egyptian privet (English)

Henna (English)

Jamaica-mignonette (English)

Mignonette-tree (English)

Henné (French)

 

Hennastrauch (German)

Alfeneiro (Portuguese)

Лосония невооруженная (Russian)

Alcana (Spanish)

Alheña (Spanish)

 

Hena (India (Hindi))

Henna (India (Hindi))

Mehendi (India (Hindi))

Mehndi (India (Hindi))

Madayantika (India (Sanskrit))

Ragangi (India (Sanskrit))

Aivanam (India (Tamil))

Aivani (India (Tamil))

Marudaani (India (Tamil))

Description

Intensely fragrant tiny cream yellow or red flowers with four pairs of slightly exserted stamens; borne in dense terminal panicles. A large shrub to small tree.