CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF MOUNT PERRY, 4] 
The following papers were read :— 
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF 
MOUNT PERRY. 
Pape if, 
By JAMES KEYS, Esa. 
This paper, which is a supplement to a former one bearing 
the same title, and read before the Royal Society of Queensland 
in April, 1884, by Mr. F. M. Bailey, contains an enumeration of 
the plants which I have collected in the neighbourhood during 
the past year, and which have been identified from time to time 
by Mr. Bailey. 
The district, whose flora I have thus attempted to determine, 
includes the Burnett Range and the ranges locally known as 
the Boolboonda and Normanby, with the irregularly shaped 
basin between, and covers an area of between eighty and one 
hundred square miles. 
The geological formation of this district, though very varied, 
may be roughly described as consisting of three classes of rock, 
viz., porphyritic, of which the Burnett Range is chiefly com- 
posed, granite in the Boolboonda and Normanby ranges, and a 
micaceous slate predominating in the hilly country between. 
The soil in general is such as an agriculturist would term 
“poor,” being almost entirely composed of sand and the larger 
fragments of disintegrated rock; and the vegetation, except in 
the mountain gorges, is seldom very luxuriant; yet the number 
and variety of species, and the rarity of many, fully compensate, 
I think, for this want of luxuriance. 
To the heterogeneous nature of the mineral constituents of 
the soil, may, in a great measure, be attributed the botanical 
wealth of the district. Of course, the diversity of elevation, 
