Essential Oil from<i>Hyptis suaveolens</i>Poit.

Abstract

ABSTRACT The essential oil obtained from the aerial parts of Hyptis suaveolens Poit collected in the Kumaun Region of India was found (by GC/MS) to differ chemically from that reported from chemotypes collected in South America and Malaysia. The main components of this Indian oil were sabinene (41.0%), β-pinene (9.8%), β-caryophyllene (7.9%), and limonene (6.8%), accompanied by more than 50 other compounds including (Z)-α-trans-bergamotol (2.0%), caryophyllene oxide (5.8%), ar-abietatriene (4.4%), and ar-abietatrienol (0.4%).