The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Heliamphora

(from helios, the sun, and amphora, a pitcher; in reference to the circular ascidia). ORD. Sarraceniaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a greenhouse herbaceous perennial. Probably this plant only yet exists in a single establishment in this country. Most likely it requires similar treatment to Sarracenia (which see).

H. nutans (nodding). fl. white, or pale rose-coloured, nodding, on an erect, few-flowered scape; sepals five, rarely four, spreading. l. radical, tubular, in the form of a pitcher with an oblique mouth, lined with deflexed hairs. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Roraima, 1883. (T. L. S. xviii. 29.)

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