1953 年 22 巻 1-2 号 p. 127-128
Discorea Batatas DECNE. has hitherto been considered as the dioecious Plant, but the author makes a proposal that the flowers of Dioscorea Batatas DECNE. (Yamatokurokawd, Ise-Imo and Icho-Imo) are bisexual after his observation. Namely, each flower had one pistil and style with six branched stigma as well as six stamens. In each stamen there are one filament and one anther with four lobes. The ovary is so-called inferior one which is divided into three loculuses and each loculus possesses two anatropous ovules.