Watercolour painting on paper of a specimen of a Hibiscus plant. The plant has a central stem off which grow numerous lobed leaves of a dark green colour. In the centre of the stem is a single flower in bloom. It has multiple cream petals with a red centre. The painting is framed by a line border.

This painting comes from a collection of four watercolour paintings which depict natural history subjects and were likely painted in Calcutta where natural history drawings were popular during the late 18th and early 19th century. These paintings are of a superior quality to paintings produced for the general consumer. Such paintings were vital to botanists in India and in England and helped further the study of the flora of the Indian subcontinent.