4 NEPHENTHES DISTILLATORIA. 
these plants ; it consists of four deal stakes formed into a square, with copper wire 
passing horizontally from each at about every two feet. The plant is conducted 
up the centre, and the copper wire serves admirably for bearing- up the leaves or 
pitchers that may be too weak to support themselves. 
In what way the generic name Nepenthes applies to this plant it is impossible to 
conceive ; but it is a name under which Homer speaks of a substance, probably 
opium. 
The specific name, distillatoria, signifies distilling". 
