LfiGUMIXOSEAE 187 



Ormosia hosiei Hemsley & Wilson. 

 Red Bean Tree. (Hung Tou Shu.) 



Tree to 20 m. tall with smooth gray bark. Leaves odd pinnate,. 

 18-20 cm. long; leaflets 5-7, oblong to oblong-ovate, acuminate, dark 

 green above, glabrous.. Panicles terminal or axillary, few flowered;, 

 flowers fragrant, white to rosy pink; calyx cup-shaped, 8-10 mm. long, 

 tomentose; petals about 2 cm. long; ovary glabrous, yellow-green; 5-6- 

 ovuled. Pods brown, woody, compressed, beaked, 4-6.5 cm. long, 2.5-3- 

 cm. broad. Seeds 1-2, bright red. 



Central and Western China. 



The bright red seeds are sometimes strung into necklaces. The 

 wood is reddish, handsomely marked, hard and heavy, one of the most 

 valuable woods for furniture and carving. 



Ormosia henryi Hemsley & Wilson. 



Tree 6-9 m. tall. Leaflets 5-9, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, coria- 

 ceous, 7-12 cm. long, 2-5.5 cm. wide. Young shoots, lower surface of 

 the leaves, and inflorescence tomentose. Flowers yellowish-white ; ovary 

 pilose. Pods 7-11 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, blue-black, slightly beaked, 

 8-10 seeded. Seeds 8-15 mm. long, more or less imbedded in the corky 

 tissue of the seed coat. 



Chekiang and Kwangtung. 



Chiefly valuable as an ornamental tree. The wood is light yellow. 



CLADRASTIS 



Deciduous trees with smooth gray bark and naked axillary buds, 

 several appressed together, one above the other, and enclosed in the 

 hollow base of the petiole. Leaves alternate, odd pinnate, with petioles 

 enlarged at the base ; leaflets 7-13, ovate, entire, alternate or subopposite. 

 Flowers in long panicles or racemes on slender pedicels, papilionaceous, 

 white; calyx campanulate, 5 toothed; stamens 10, free or slightly united 

 at the base ; ovary with numerous ovules. Pods linear, flattened , thin , 

 membranous, 3-6 seeded. 



2 species, 1 in N. America and 1 in China. They are medium- 

 sized trees cultivated for their white, fragrant flowers and for their 

 foliage, which in the autumn turns a brilliant yellow. The wood is hard 



