Aloe vera
The species has several synonyms: "A. barbadensis" Mill., "Aloe indica" Royle, "Aloe perfoliata" L. var. "vera" and "A. vulgaris" Lam. Some literature identifies the white-spotted form of "Aloe vera" as "Aloe vera" var. "chinensis"; and the spotted form of "Aloe vera" may be conspecific with "A. massawana". The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as "Aloe perfoliata" var. "vera", and was described again in 1768 by Nicolaas Laurens Burman as "Aloe vera" in "Flora Indica" on 6 April and by Philip Miller as "Aloe barbadensis" some ten days after Burman in the "Gardener's Dictionary".