This is a wooden box with two British stamps on top containing 1 dried plant specimen and 1 paper label, The inscription on the paper reads ‘Horse-tooth vegetable dried’.

Haworthia truncata.

The stamps on the front of the box date from 1887-1900 and have the inscriptions: “Postage and revenue one half penny” and “postage and revenue one penny” respectively. The box, thus has no direct connection with the specimens in it.