A PRELIMINARY LIST OF PLANTS OF THE 
NATIONAL PARK, MACPHERSON RANGE.* 
By JOHN SHIRLEY, D.Sc. 
(Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 24th March, 
1919.) 
During a holiday of five weeks, spent in the National 
Park at heights of 3,000-3,600 feet, the following native 
plants were collected. For the determination of a few of 
the rarer species, and of two climbing plants not hitherto 
found in Queensland, I am indebted to Mr. J. H. Maiden, 
F.R.S., Government Botanist of New South Wales. My 
companion during this trip was Mr. H. Tryon, Government 
Entomologist, who was indefatigable in assisting in plant 
collection, and at the same time added largely to the store 
of insect specimens in the cabinets of the Department of 
Agriculture. 
Most of the species indicated were gathered in the dense 
scrubs of Roberts Plateau, one of the highest parts of the 
Macpherson Range. The collection involved many 
difficulties, as the scrub trees are of enormous size. The 
flowers of these trees had first to be found with field glasses, 
and then by various ingenious means specimens were 
secured. The trees supported a wealth of climbing plants, 
whose enormous cables, and masses of foliage made 
observation of the flowers and fruits of their hosts a difficult 
task. Some of the climbing cables are the stems of plants 
of the grape family; one is a very prickly blackberry, 
*[After this list had been handed to the Royal Society it was 
pointed out that a list of plants of the National Park had been 
published by the late F. M. Bailey. The two lists, however, do not 
overlap to any considerable extent.—Ed. ] 
