The Piritus take their name from the ravine Pirichucuar, where the small thorny palm-tree, * called piritu, grows in abundance; the wood of this tree, which is excessively hard, and little combustible, serves to make pipes. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Pirichucuar, where the small thorny palm-tree, * called piritu, grows in abundance (* Caudice gracili aculeato, foliis pinnatis. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
This tree is very common in these mountains; but not having seen either its fruit or its flowers, we are ignorant whether it be the piritu palm-tree of the Caribbees, or the Cocos aculeata of Jacquin. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Palm-trees are rare; we saw only a few scattered trunks of the thorny piritu and corozo. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Corozo del Sinu* pressed against each other, which formed heretofore our species Alfonsia, yielding oil in abundance; the Cocos butyracea, called here palma dolce or palma real, and very different from the palma real of the island of Cuba; the palma amarga, with fan-leaves that serve to cover the roofs of houses, and the latta, * resembling the small piritu palm-tree of the Orinoco. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Guayaval, especially the piritu with pinnate leaves, * and the moriche ❋ Unknown (1851)
In the mission of San Fernando, a tree which gives a peculiar physiognomy to the landscape, is the piritu or pirijao palm. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Caribbean names, means a ravine, as in Guaymacuar (ravine of lizards), Pirichucuar (a ravine overshaded by pirichu or piritu palm-trees), Chiguatacuar (a ravine of land-shells). ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
This tree is very common in these mountains; but not having seen either its fruit or its flowers, we are ignorant whether it be the piritu palm-tree of the Caribbees, or the ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
Other palm-trees rise south of Guayaval, especially the piritu with pinnate leaves, * (* Perhaps an Aiphanes.) and the moriche (Mauritia flexuosa), celebrated by Father Gumilla under the name of arbol de la vida, or tree of life. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
a ravine, as in Guaymacuar (ravine of lizards), Pirichucuar (a ravine overshaded by pirichu or piritu palm-trees), Chiguatacuar (a ravine of land-shells). ❋ Unknown (1851)
The Corozo de los Marinos of the valley of Cauca, one of the tallest palm-trees, is the Cocus butyracea of Linnaeus.); the Cocos butyracea, called here palma dolce or palma real, and very different from the palma real of the island of Cuba; the palma amarga, with fan-leaves that serve to cover the roofs of houses, and the latta, * (* Perhaps of the species of Aiphanes.) resembling the small piritu palm-tree of the ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
