Cattleya alaorii Cattleya alaorii Cattleya alaorii, commonly known as the Laelia alaorii, is a species of orchid endemic to Brazil (Bahia). The species was named after Mr. Alaor Oliveira, former employee at the University of São Paulo at Piracicaba, who first collected this species in a field excursion in the late 1960s. It was discovered in the 1970s in an isolated mountain chain near Itabuna, Bahia state. It grows in the very wet Bahia coastal forests ecoregion of the Atlantic Forest biome ("Mata Atlantica Brasileira"). It is found in rainforests at about above sea level. The plants are epiphytes in tall trees
A Flower in a Sinful Sea addition the word sounds similar to "hua" (T: 華, S: 华, P: "huá", W: "hua"), meaning China. The title has also been translated as "Flower in a Sea of Sin", "Flower in the Sea of Retribution", "Flower in the World of Retribution", "Flower in a Sea of Karma", "Flower in the Sea of Evil" or "A Flower in an Ocean of Sin". In the earlier versions of the novel by Jin Tianhe, Sai Jinhua, a courtesan, travels to the west with her husband, a scholar. They meet Russian anarchists and the novel describes the history of the Russian anarchist movement.