In Borders Nos. 19 and 19 _a_, will be found large specimens of the _Sparmannia Africana_, an old conservatory favourite, indigenous to the Cape. It was named in honour of Dr. Sparman, the Swedish physician and botanist, who accompanied Captain Cook in his second voyage round the world. These fine trees were presented by Her Majesty the Queen. Close to the _Sparmannia_ is a large India-Rubber-tree, the sap of which constitutes the article now so extensively known and used. It will easily be recognised by its broad, handsome, and glossy leaves. This tree belongs to the Fig tribe, all kinds of which bear sap with more or less the same properties. A plant close to this is the _Loquat_, or Japan Medlar, which is curious from its peculiarity of shedding its bark. A little nearer to the Court will be found a most elegant plant of the Grass tribe, the Himalayan Bamboo, a small and delicate cane, which is found high up the Himalayas, and consequently flourishes in a lower degree of temperature than the common tropical Bamboo. The remaining examples to be noticed in these Borders are amongst the most curious in the collection. The first is the _Rhipidodendron plicatile_, so named from the fan-like growth of the leaves. The common lily is the type of the order to which this plant belongs. The next are the curious African plants, like rough blocks of wood, which are called “Elephant’s Foot.” These remarkable plants are calculated as being 3000 years old: they were imported from the Cape of Good Hope. The _Casuarina stricta_, of Australia, is also here, with its curiously jointed foliage. The wood of this plant, from its peculiar conformation and colour, has gained for the tree the name of Beef-wood. In its native state it attains a great size. Several kinds of the temperate Palms, Ferns, and Aloes are also arranged in this position. The most noticeable tree in Border No. 21, is a luxuriant specimen of the Moreton Bay Pine (_Araucaria Cunninghamii_). In the succeeding Border, No. 21 _a_, is another of the _Eucalypti_, the leaves of which, it is curious to remark, change from round to lance-shaped as the tree advances in growth; and in the further corner is the _Geitonoplesium_, a trailing plant of the same order as the common Asparagus. In Border No. 23 _a_, just opposite the column, is the Peppermint tree, of Australia (_Epyclautus piperata_).