Polysaccharides ofAloe arborescens

Summary An acidic polysaccharide belonging to the class of pectin substances has been isolated from the leaves ofAloe arborescens.Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far-Eastern Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Academician A. B. Fomin Botanical Garden. T. G. Shevchenko Kiev State University. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 3–5, January–February, 1975.