Aloe.

Botanical name: 

Aloe sp. Liliaceae. Aloe.

The Banians of the African coast, according to Grant, cut the leaves of an aloe into small pieces, soak them in lime-juice, put them in the sun, and a pickle is thus formed.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.