ROTH] PLANT FOOD OI 
the black fruit from a palm so short that they can reach it with 
their hands (G, 1, 263) ; and cubarros, the fruit from a larger palm 
full of prickles (G, 1, 263). The cabbage (i. e., the young growing 
shoot) can be eaten from most of the palms, except from the 
paripi (Gulelma), but the trees are destroyed thereby. 
Paullinia. 
Psidium sp. Guava. P. turbiniflorum is the piriko of the Makusi 
(SR, u, 12). P. guajava (SR, o, 12). 
Spondias lutea. The maropi of the Makusi (SR, u, 129, 362; ScT, 
63), the hog plum of the Creoles. 
