abstract the water distilled oils from the aerial parts of salvia compressa vent. collected from two different localities and cyclotrichium leucotrichum (stapf. ex rech.f.) were analyzed by gc and gc/ms. the main components found in the oil of s. compressa collected at tange malavi, 751 m (sample a) were -caryophyllene (21.4%), -pinene (18.4%) and caryophyllene oxide (13.2%), while in the oil of the plant collected at mamolan to pole dokhtar, 927 m (sample b), -caryophyllene (21.1%), 3-thujopsanone (15.3%), germacrene d (12.6%), bicyclogermacrene (11.6%) and nerol (10.7%) were the most abundant constituents. both oils were richer in sesquiterpenes than monoterpenes. linalool (38.7%), limonene (15.4%) and spathulenol (12.6%) were the predominant compounds in the oil of cyclotrichium leucotrichum. the oil of the plant consisted mainly of monoterpenes. key word index: salvia compressa cyclotrichium leucotrichum labiataeessential oil composition-caryophyllene-pinenecaryophylleneoxide3-thujopsanonegermacrene dbicyclogermacrenenerollinaloollimonenespathulenol