Studies on Chemical Constituents and Morphological Characters of the Fruits of Seven Labiatae Plants

摘要

【英文文摘】The chemical constituents and morphological characters of the fruits of seven Labiatae plants have been studied. The results showed that the contents of fatty oils in the fruits are abundant. The main constituents of unsaturated fatty acids are α-linolenic acid, linolic acid, oleic acid, and arachidonic acid. The main constituents of saturated fatty acids are palmitic acid and stearic acid. Although different kinds of fruit oils have different content of a specific unsaturated fatty acid, the content of total unsaturated fatty acids ismore than 90% of fruit oils. The fruits also contain eighteen kindsof am ino acids and somem ineral elements. Due to high nutritional in-gredients, there ispotentialprospect to explore and utilize them.Theirmorphological characters were also discussed.