DeceMBER 19, 1911] A FascicLE or Davao Fras 1267 
Receptacles mainly solitary in the leaf axils, green, rather 
smooth, in the young state, covered with a soft pulverulence, 
globose, 2 cm. in diameter, upon short recurved ebracteate 
peduncles; syconium thick and hard; umbilicus small, imbri- 
cately covered by short flat scales, the inner ones linear and 
extending centrally; flowers dense, apparently neutral and gall 
only, of different ages, the old ones dark brown and 4 mm. long; 
pedicel conspicuous, wavy, much shorter in the younger ones, 
at least 2 mm. long; the younger perianth much longer, 3 to 5- 
segmented, of unequal sizes, split down to below the middle, the 
segments linear to lanceolate and with slender apices, the sides 
lighter brown; gall ovary straw colored, egg shaped or ellipsoid, 
1.25 mm. long; style brown, lateral, 2 to 5 mm. long, slender, 
bearing a slightly expanded and somewhat oblique stigma. 
Type specimen 11154, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
In moist soil mixed with sand and gravel of a densely for- 
ested flat in a deep gorge along a streamlet near the Sibulan 
river at 1750 feet. “Dapasan” is the vernacular Bagobo name. 
There is little doubt of our species being related to F. ba- 
taanensis Merr. and F. crassitora Elm. 
Ficus peabodyi Elm. n. sp. 
A rather large tree; stem 6 dm. through, 15m. high; branch- 
es ultimately widely spreading and crooked, the young por- 
tion of the twigs smooth; bark grayish brown mottled, lenticell- 
ed at the ends of the branchlets. Leaves rather thin, shining 
and darker green on the upper surface, flat, only the obtuse to 
acute apex slightly recurved, glabrous, both sides turning similarly 
brown when dry, variable in size, entire toward the truncate- 
ly rounded or broadly obtuse bases, otherwise crenately dentate, 
the larger blades 15 em. long by one half as wide across the 
middle, elliptically oblong in shape, alternatingly arranged 
toward the ends of the branchlets; midvein conspicuous beneath, 
with 7 to 9 also prominent ascendingly curved lateral pairs, 
the cross bars obscure, all nerves slightly strigose in the young 
state; petiole 1.5 cm. long, subglabrate; bud bracts acuminate, 
subglabrous, 1.5 em. long, brownish. 
Receptacles hanging upon rather flexible and numerously 
