Nepenthes lowii
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Nepenthes lowii, or Low's pitcher-plant, is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo. It is named after Hugh Low, who discovered it on Mount Kinabalu. This species is perhaps the most unusual in the genus, being characterised by its strongly constricted upper pitchers, which bear a greatly reduced peristome and a reflexed lid with numerous bristles on its lower surface.
A line drawing from Macfarlane's monograph on the Nepenthaceae
A rosette plant with lower pitchers
An upper pitcher
"The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies" is a seminal monograph by B. H. Danser on the tropical pitcher plants of the Dutch East Indies and surrounding regions. It was originally published in the Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg in 1928, and reprinted by Natural History Publications (Borneo) in 2006.
A typical line drawing from Danser's monograph, showing three herbarium specimens of the natural hybrid Nepenthes × hookeriana. The plant material illustrated includes a lower pitcher, an upper pitcher, a female inflorescence, an infructescence, and a portion of the stem. This figure was produced by Amir Hamzah, a draughtsman of the Buitenzorg Herbarium, under the direction of B. H. Danser.
Image: Nepenthes mollis Endert 4282