Descripition:

A glabours much-branched deciduous shrub with 4-gonous lateral branches often ending in spines; leaves simple, opposite, entire, laceolate, petioles very short or absent; flowers white, or rose-colored, fragrant, in large terminal pyramidal panicled cymes,stamens 8, in 4 pair inserted on the calyx tube; fruits globose capsules, tipped with the
style and supported by the persistent calyx, seeds numerous, smooth, pyramidal.

Uses:

The roots are bitter, refrigerant, depurative, diuretic, emmenagogue, abortifacient and trichogenous, and are useful in burning sensation, dispsia, leprosy, skin disease,
strangury amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, and premature graying of hair.

Botanical Name: Lawsonia Inermis
Family Name: Lythraceae
Commericial Part: Leaves