Solomon's Seal, Polygonatum oppositifolium. Sent from Nepal by Dr. Nathaniel Wallich to nurseryman George Loddiges in 1819. Opposite-leaved Solomon's Seal, Convallaria oppositifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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