pagoda tree

noun2

1. •
   Styphnolobium japonicum, a tree in the pea family Fabaceae.
2. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) The opportunity to make money rapidly in British India.

   • India has been transferred from the regions of romance to the realms of fact […] the mines of Golconda no longer pay the cost of working, and the pagoda-tree has been stripped of all its golden fruit. — 1877