Hibiscus Cannabinus

Hibiscus cannabinus is an erect herbaceous annual with straight, slender, glabrous or prickly stem, 1.8mt. High; lower leaves cordate, upper leaves deeply palmately 5 - 7 lobed; lobes oblong-lanceolate, sinuous, denticulate; flowers axillary, large, 3 - 4 inches in diam., yellow with crimson centre; capsules globose, pointed, bristly; seeds large, brown, nearly globrous. The plant is apparently indigenous to India; some consider it to bea native of tropical Africa, where numerous type are found growing wild. In India, it has been under cultivation since long and is found distributed throughout the country up to an elevation of 3000 ft. in the lower Himalayas; in many localities, it is an escape from cultivation.