(Erythroxylaceae), a new species from Guangdong Province, China, is described and illustrated. This new species is morphologically most similar to , but is distinguished by the leathery leaf blade with fewer pairs of secondary veins and flowers borne on leafless nodes of the basal part of the current branch with much longer pedicels and sub-rectangular petal appendages. This is the second native species of recorded from China.
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