The genus Cinnamomum

Table 15.3 Constituents of leaf oil of a chemotype of C. bejolghota
Component %
Benzaldehyde 1.18
-Pinene 5.30
Camphene 0.36
-Pinene 2.06
Myrcene 1.10
-Phellandrene 32.82
p-Cymene 0.80
1,8-Cineole 5.55
-Phellandrene 1.60
-Terpinene 0.60
Terpinolene 2.38
Linalool 24.45
Borneol t
Terpinen-4-ol 0.30
Benzyl acetate t
Guaiacol t
-Terpineol 0.26
Linalyl acetate t
(E)-cinnamaldehyde t
Eugenol 0.60
(E)-methyl cinnamate 0.36
Methyl eugenol 0.26
-caryophyllene 2.00
(E)-ethyl cinnamate t
(2) Methyl isoeugenol 0.70
-Humulene 0.60
-Furnasene 11.75
Caryophyllene oxide 0.40
Source: Nath et al., 1999.
Note
t: trace.
Other Useful Species of Cinnamomum 333
to ovate, initially densely microscopically sericeous, glabrescent, three-veined, lateral
veins terminating 1–2 cm below leaf-tip. Panicles axillary or pseudoterminal, densely
sericeous, flowers 3 mm long, cup 2 mm high, tepals 1.5–2 mm long, stiff, upright,
oblong, subacute. Fruit 11 8 mm, ellipsoid, apiculate with resinous odour, cotyledons
red (Dassanayake et al., 1995). Wijesekera and Jayewardene (1994) analysed this species
and found the main chemical constituents to be 1,8-cineole (15%), linalool (29%) and
eugenol (23%).
C. cecidodaphne Meissner
C. cecidodaphne Meissner in DC Prodr. 15(1), 25,1864; Drury. Ind. Fl. 3, 55, 1869;
Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. 305, 1881; List of trees, shrubs Darjeeling Distr. Ed. 2, 65,
1896; Hooker f. Fl.Brit. India 5, 135, 1886; Staub, Geschichte Genus Cinnamomum t
2,3, 1905; Brandis, Ind. Trees 528, 534 et 716, 1906; Troup, Eco. Prod. Ser., Ind. For
Mem.,1, 114, 1909; Fischer in Rec. Bot. Sur. Ind. 12(2), 128, 1938; Kanjilal, Fl.
Assam 4, 58, 1940; Howard, Man. Timb. World, ed 3, 147, 1951; Bor, Man. Ind.
Forest Bot. 53, 1953; Rao, Trees Duars & Terai 85, 1957.