Sweet box or Christmas box, Sarcococca coriacea. Native to India, China and Indo-China, sent from Nepal by botanist Dr. Nathaniel Wallich. Nepaul pachysandra, Pachysandra? coriacea. 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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