No. 1006. 
BABIANA RINGENS. г 
Class. Order. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This singular plant is a native of the Cape 
of Good Hope : it is recorded to have been 
cultivated in 1759, by Miller, but has 
always been considered scarce. In Holland 
it was known long before, having been 
figured by Commelin in 1697. In his Hor- 
tus, Vol. 1, Fig. 41, he describes it as flower- 
‚ing and ripening its seeds in the Amsterdam 
garden. 
We received our's from the Cape four or 
five years since: it flowered in May and 
June, having bcen planted in a border close 
to the front wall of a stove, which situation 
seems the most eligible for these and similar 
bulbs: the soil should be sandy peat about 
a foot in depth. It increases itself by 
offsets, sparingly. МЕ? 
