abstract essential oils were obtained from fresh leaves of eugenia florida and eugenia mansoi, collected in southern brazil, and analyzed by gc and gc/ms. forty-five compounds, ranging from 81.1-93.6% of the total oil, were identified. bicyclogermacrene (10.9%), germacrene d (10.4%) and -caryophyllene (8.1%) were the major components of e. florida oil, while for e. mansoi oil the main components were viridiflorene (12.5%), (e,e)-farnesol (14.5%) and (e,z)-farnesol (17.3%).