Lipid levels in the tissues of liver and intestines of O.bartrami amounted to 40.0% and 1.5%. The new compounds was found to be ethyl acylates, from a deduction of their detailed 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) and 13C-NMR as well as infra red spectra (IR). The fatty acid composition of total lipids were mainly composed of C16:0(19.0%), C18:1(16.2%) and C22:6Ω3(15.7%), followed by C20:1(9.4%), C22:1(6.4%) and C18:0(5.4%). New compound A and B were seemed to derived from the cleavage of glycerol moieties of triglycerides by microbial activities during storage in a frozen state. Compound A contained C16:0(38.2%), C18:1(13:4%), C20:1(13.3%) and C22:1(11.7%) as major components, while compound B predominantly comprised polyunsaturated fatty acid such as C20:5Ω3 (41.2%) and C22:6Ω3(36.1%). In both compounds small amounts of odd numbered fatty acids were also detected (3.8~2.2%).
Contents of total lipids, neutral lipids, glycolipids and phospholipids of seed oils of 16 species of the Labiatae family were determined and their fatty acid compositions were analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography. The results were summarized as follows. 1) Lipid contents of seeds were shown to be 40.6% in Perilla frutescens Britton var. japonica, 32.2% in P. frutescens britton var. acuta, 31.9% in lsodon japonicus, 32.7% in l. inflexus, 48.3% in l. serra, 35.1% in Mosls dianthera, 38.2% in M. punctulata, 33.4% in Nepeta cataria, 26.3% in Agastache rugosa, 30.9% in Eisholtzia ciliata, 18.9% in Salvia splendens, 23.9% in Lycopus maackianus, 49.5% in Clinopodium chinense var. parviflorum, 30.9% in Ametystea caerulea, 33.1% in Leonurus sibircus and 34.3% in Scutellaria basicalensis. 2) Contents of neutral lipids, glycolipids and phospholipids from the seed oils amounted to 98.6%, 0.7%, 0.8% in P. frutescens Britton var. japonica; 95.5%, 1.3%, 3.1% in P. frutescens Britton var. acuta; 95.1%, 1.8%, 3.1% in l. japoincus; 91.4%, 3.5%, 5.1% in l. inflexus; 96.8%, 0.7%, 2.5% in l, serra; 96.0%, 1.8%, 2.2% in Mosla dianthera; 94.7%, 2.0%, 3.3% in M. punctulata; 90.1%, 2.4%, 7.5% in Nepeta cataria; 90.1%, 3.4%, 6.5% in Agastache rugosa; 86.3%, 3.3%, 10.4% in Elsholtzia ciliata; 94.3%, 1.5%, 4.3% in Salvia splendens; 87.2%, 2.9%, 9.0% in Lycopus maackianus; 87.0%, 1.5%, 11.5% in Clinopodium chinense var. parviflorum; 91.8%, 1.6%, 6.6%; 95.5%, 0.4%, 4.1% in Leonurus sibricus; 89.0%, 1.4%, 9.6% in Scutellaria baicalensis. 3) Total lipids revealed the predominace of unsaturated fatty acids (82.0-94.5%) and larger variations were found in the composition of α-linolenic acid (0.4-67.9%) and linoleic acid (11.2-82.9%). High level of α-linoenic acid was present in P. frutescens Britton var. japonica (67.9%), P. frutescens Britton var, acuta (66.0%), lsodon japonicus (65.2%), l. inflexus (59.0%), l. serra (57.3%), Mosla dianthera (60.9%), Nepeta cataria (58.3%), Agastache rugosa (58.5%) and Elsholtzia ciliata (46.2%), and followed by linoleic acid (11.2-32.1%) and oleic acid (9.3-12.2%). However, linoleic acid was the most predominant component in the total lipids of Clinopodium chinense var. parviflorum (62.4%), Ametystea caerules (82.9%), Leonurus sibricus (60.9%) and Scutellaria baicalensis (63.4%), with very small amounts of α-linolenic acid (0.4-3.1%). The total lipids of Salvia splendens, Lycopus maackianus and Mosla punctulata also contained linoleic acid of 31.3%, 48.8% and 53.4%, with a considerable amount of α-linolenic acid of 34.5% 27.0% and 16.7%. Palmitic acid was the major saturated fatty acid in all the oils investigated (4.1-14.2%). 4) Fatty acid profiles of neutral lipids bore a close resemblance to those of total lipids in all the seed oils, but different from those of glycolipids and phospholipids. Fatty acid composition pattern of glycolipids and phospholipids showed a considerably increased level of saturated fatty acids (19.0-66.8%, 17.8-35.2%) mainly composed of palmitic acid and stearic acid, and a noticeable low level of unsaturated fatty acids (41.2-80.9%, 64.7-82.1%) which was ascribed to the decrease in α-linolenic acid of high α-linolenic acid seed oils, and in linoleic acid of high linoleic seed oils, compared to that of total lipids and neutral lipids.