Nepenthes

1. (n.) Same as Nepenthe.
2. (n.) 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 distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.