Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Lawsonia inermis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 349. 1753 . "Habitat in India, Aegypto. " RCN: 2697. Type not designated. Original material: [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 4: 117, t. 57. 1683; [icon] in Walther, Design. Pl.: 3, t. 4. 1735. Generitype of Lawsonia Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. : 150. 1929). Current name: Lawsonia inermis L. ( Lythraceae ). Note: Dar (in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakistan 78: 5. 1975) and a number of later authors have treated 496.1 (LINN) as the type. However, the material is a post-1753 addition to the collection and not original material for the name.