Ormosia
(from hormos, a necklace; referring to the seeds of O. coccinea, which are scarlet, with a dark spot, and are strung for necklaces). Necklace-tree. Including Macrotropis. ORD. Leguminosae. A genus comprising about eighteen species of stove, evergreen trees, natives of tropical Asia and America. Flowers white, lilac, or dark purple, panicled or racemose; standard roundish. Pods oblong, or rarely elongated. Leaves impari- or somewhat abruptly pinnate; leaflets coriaceous, rarely stipellate; stipules small or inconspicuous. Ormosias are most readily raised from imported seeds, or they may be propagated by cuttings of the half-ripened young shoots, inserted in sandy soil, under a bell glass, in bottom heat. The species thrive in a well-drained mixture of turfy loam and leaf mould.
O. coccinea (scarlet). fl. blue. June. Pods glabrous, shining; seeds scarlet, with a black spot at one end, resembling beads. l., leaflets somewhat ovate, thick, with revolute margins. h. 10ft. to 20ft. Guiana, 1823. O. dasycarpa (thick-fruited). fl. blue, large. June. Pods tomentose. l., leaflets acuminated, glabrous on both sides. h. 10ft. to 20ft. West Indies, 1793.