- Same as Nepenthe. - A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc.,
which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril
terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often
called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species,
of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.
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