Nepenthes

Same as Nepenthe. See: Nepenthe

A genus of climbing plants found in tropical areas of India, Malaya, Australia, 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.(Bot.) Also: pitcher plants, monkey-cups See: Pitcher plant