Aromatic Plants of Tropical Central Africa. XV. Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil ofAchyrospermum africanumHook. from Cameroon

Abstract
The hydrodistilled essential oil of Achyrospermum africanum Hook. from Cameroon was analyzed by capillary GC and GC/MS. Thirty-one components representing 95.8% of the oil were characterized. The major constituents of the oil were found to be α-cubebene (34.2%), α-santalene (9.1%) and 3-octanol (15.6%).