This cattleya ‘Scheherazade’ blooms at this time each year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randomness « Fairegarden] Reference

It's a cattleya-type orchid, and it's the first time I've ever been able to get a catt to bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [12/14/2007] Reference

It's a member of the cattleya family, and its flowers stay around for a good month, and get darker and darker orange over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [03/11/2005] Reference

The blooms of freesia, narcissus, hyacinths, cattleya orchids, and miniature gardenias are often short-lived, but their sweet fragrance makes up for their early demise.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Avoid Housework] Reference

I say that glossum and that cattleya has been moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life's Eclipse] Reference

You have the best endorser, Oprah herself. cattleya sammy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coolsmurf Domain] Reference

Thompson started with a cattleya, though her collection has grown significantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories] Reference

"No cattleya, then, to-night?" he asked, "and I've been looking forward so to a nice little cattleya.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

He turned upon his heel and left the orchid-house, and as soon as he was gone the new head-gardener stood watching him till he was out of hearing, and then, doubling up his fist, he struck out from the shoulder at one of the offending pots standing at a corner -- a lovely mauve-tinted cattleya in full blossom -- and sent it flying to shivers upon the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life's Eclipse] Reference

(or, rather, the ritual pretence of an arrangement) of her cattleyas had quite fallen into desuetude, the metaphor “Do a cattleya,” transmuted into a simple verb which they would employ without a thought of its original meaning when they wished to refer to the act of physical possession (in which, paradoxically, the possessor possesses nothing), survived to commemorate in their vocabulary the long forgotten custom from which it sprang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

On certain evenings she would suddenly resume towards him a kindness of which she would warn him sternly that he must take immediate advantage, under penalty of not seeing it repeated for years to come; he must instantly accompany her home, to “do a cattleya,” and the desire which she pretended to have for him was so sudden, so inexplicable, so imperious, the kisses which she lavished on him were so demonstrative and so unfamiliar, that this brutal and unnatural fondness made Swann just as unhappy as any lie or unkind action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

I’ve been looking forward so to a nice little cattleya.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

But she was irresponsive; saying nervously: "No, dear, no cattleya tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

But she was irresponsive; saying nervously: “No, dear, no cattleya tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

Let’s start with the cattleya that has decided to open quite early this year, cattleya Slc.    From Wordnik.com.  [From The Greenhouse « Fairegarden] Reference

(there's that damned earwig again!), orchid, purple cattleya orchid, and white cattleya orchid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perfume Posse] Reference

January 5, 2008 at 6:53 am martha stewart kitty sez “philodendrons belong in dentist’s offices and office cubicles – is that the effect you wish to create in your home? here – we’ll just get rid of this and start over. how about a lovely cattleya ?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [My cute innocent face - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

And long afterwards, when the arrangement (or, rather, the ritual pretence of an arrangement) of her cattleyas had quite fallen into desuetude, the metaphor "Do a cattleya," transmuted into a simple verb which they would employ without a thought of its original meaning when they wished to refer to the act of physical possession (in which, paradoxically, the possessor possesses nothing), survived to commemorate in their vocabulary the long forgotten custom from which it sprang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

On certain evenings she would suddenly resume towards him a kindness of which she would warn him sternly that he must take immediate advantage, under penalty of not seeing it repeated for years to come; he must instantly accompany her home, to "do a cattleya," and the desire which she pretended to have for him was so sudden, so inexplicable, so imperious, the kisses which she lavished on him were so demonstrative and so unfamiliar, that this brutal and unnatural fondness made Swann just as unhappy as any lie or unkind action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

A bee's-eye view of a cattleya orchid.    From Wordnik.com.  [02/03/2006] Reference

Here are the cattleya and the camellia pix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Pictures « Fairegarden] Reference

Shown above is a species, cattleya skinneri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers For Cutting « Fairegarden] Reference

A cattleya was Thompson's first orchid.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories] Reference

“No cattleya, then, to-night?” he asked, “and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference