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Indian hemp (not to be confused with Cannabis sativa Linn., Cannabaceae); Deccan hemp; bastard jute; hemp-leaved hibiscus; wild saur (The Gambia, F N Williams); kenaf (India); Bimlipatam jute; rama fibre., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
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Flora
Entry for HIBISCUS cannabinus Linn. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
HIBISCUS cannabinusLinn. [family MALVACEAE], ;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 450. W. & A. Prod. p. 50. Roxb. Corom. t. 190. Cav. Diss. t. 52. f. 1.
Information
annual, nearly glabrous; stem and petioles prickly; leaves on long petioles, palmately 5–7-parted, the segments lanceolate, acute, serrulate, the middle nerve with a gland at base; flowers (large) subsessile, axillary; involucel of 9–10 subulate, bristly leaflets half as long as the calyx lobes, which are deltoid-acuminate, bristly or prickly, and each having a large medial gland; capsule globose, acuminate, very hairy, seeds glabrous. 4–6 feet high, with foliage like that of Hemp, and large white flowers, with a dark purple centre.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Between Omsamculo and Omcomas, and towards Port Natal, Drege! (Herb. Sond.).
Notes
Much cultivated in India for its leaves, which are used as a vegetable, and for its fibre, from which an inferior kind of hemp is prepared.
