Decemper 19, 1911] A FascicLE or Davao Fires 1269 
usually a trifle wider just above the middle, entire, the normal 
blades 17.5 cm. long by 7.5 em. wide across the widest portion, 
glabrous, slightly roughened on both sides, gradually tapering 
into the acute point, occasionally a trifle inequilateral at the 
rounded slightly cordate bases; midvein prominently raised on 
the nether side, sordid brown and slightly hispidulous; nerves 
9 to 7 on a side, ascending, also prominent, tips anastomosing, 
cross bars and reticulations quite evident from beneath; petiole 
1 to 1.5 em. long, short hispid pubescent, brown in the dry state; 
bud bracts 1 em. long, acuminate, strigosely brown pubescent 
especially on the dorsal median line. - 
Receptacles obovoidly globose, densely clustered upon 15 
cm. long branched tubercles along the stem, the exposed por- 
tions green, otherwise pale white, sprinkled with brown colored 
lenticels, 2 cm. long; peduncle at most 5 mm. long, with minute 
or obsolete bracts; umbilicus small, only slightly raised, the 
outer scales transverse, the inner ones subpendulous; flowers 
male and gall only; male flowers confined to the region below 
the umbilicus, old yet persistent, 2.5 mm. long, upon thick 1 
mm. long pedicels, monandrous, subtended by an oblique gamo- 
phyllous one half as long perianth; anther 1.5 mm. long, broadly 
oblong, subsessile, usually bearing a short mucronate point; 
young gall flowers upon long light brown pedicels, compressed, 
obliquely obovoid; the mature ones appear as if sessile, scattered 
and intermixed with the younger ones, blackish brown, 1.5 mm. 
long; style 1 mm. long, subterminal, bearing an equally dark 
i brown oblique and gobulose stigma; perianth mostly ob- 
solete. 
Type specimen 11218, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Discovered on the banks of the Mainit creek in a very humid 
densely forested depression near the Sibulan river at 3750 feet. 
Named with pleasure after Mr. H. Peabody, a successful planter 
of the Davao gulf region. / The Bagobos know it as “Basi- 
cong." 
Probably its greatest affinity is with F. endothrimz Warb. 
from Dagatpan, collected by him in mixed forests on a plain, 
but our fruits are without yellow hairs on the inner side of the 
syconium and leaves not 'elliptieis" nor acute at both 
ends. 
