Aromatic Plant Oils of the Peruvian Amazon. Part 1.Lippia alba(Mill.) N.E. Br. andCornutia odorata(Poeppig) Poeppig ex Schauer, Verbenaceae

The essential oils of fresh Lippia alba and Cornutia odorata leaves from Peruvian Amazon were isolated by hydrodistillation and analyzed by a combination of GC and GC/MS. Twenty-nine and twenty-two components have been identified, accounting for 96.3% and 999% of the respective oils. The major constituents of the L. alba oil were found to be carvone (63.4%), germacrene D (5.6%) and limonene (5.1%). The C. odorata oil consisted mainly of (E)-nerolidol (38.6%), sabinene (194%) and terpinen-4-ol (10.4%).