nepenthes distillatoria

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Same as Nepenthe. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

2.(Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster]