abstract essential oils isolated by hydrodistillation from leaves and flowers of myrcia laruotteana were analyzed bycapillary gc and gc/ms. twenty-five compounds, representing around 90% of the total oil, were identified. the main components were -bisabolol (20.7 and 28.1, in leaves and flowers, respectively) and 14-hydroxy--muurolene (19.9% and 13.7%). methyl salicylate was present only in flowers oil, as a minor constituent.