A process is provided for obtaining colchicine and colchicoside from seed of Gloriosa sps. The process comprising immersing the seed in a chlorinated solvent to obtain a solution filtering the solution and processing the filtrate to obtain colchicines drying the immersed seeds processing the immersed seeds to separate mass comprising colchicoside from mass comprising colchicine and extracting the colchicoside from the mass using mixed polar solar solvent. Reference figure: FIG. 1